How To Install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Rocky Linux 8. mesa-vulkan-drivers is Mesa Vulkan drivers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `mesa-vulkan-drivers`

The drivers with support for the Vulkan API.

We can use yum or dnf to install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mesa-vulkan-drivers.

Install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mesa-vulkan-drivers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mesa-vulkan-drivers

Install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mesa-vulkan-drivers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-vulkan-drivers

How To Uninstall mesa-vulkan-drivers on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the mesa-vulkan-drivers package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mesa-vulkan-drivers

mesa-vulkan-drivers Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/1bc4d83d58a3c70a2e6f36bdf58676c965954f
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/18d7a62b4caec747c0127863f2f48a0a41ea88
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/3584923430b4169d9b86871e4a9e98cb25ad51
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/e99133f3340247ee57e932353d9c6c2fd82507
/usr/lib/libVkLayer_MESA_device_select.so
/usr/lib/libvulkan_intel.so
/usr/lib/libvulkan_lvp.so
/usr/lib/libvulkan_radeon.so
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/intel_icd.i686.json
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/lvp_icd.i686.json
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i686.json
/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/VkLayer_MESA_device_select.json
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/034f02840a71baec0c2fde22452fb8fc4d5847
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/7d3a83ec4cca6b64cbfd33883d554c7be52529
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/98c40283202a46f570a0c3412ae1c24e8b6648
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/16b99b9c46f290eadaf42cb618599497c940f9
/usr/lib64/libVkLayer_MESA_device_select.so
/usr/lib64/libvulkan_intel.so
/usr/lib64/libvulkan_lvp.so
/usr/lib64/libvulkan_radeon.so
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/intel_icd.x86_64.json
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/lvp_icd.x86_64.json
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json
/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/VkLayer_MESA_device_select.json

References

mesa-vulkan-drivers website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.