How To Install mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 is Mesa Vulkan drivers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64`

The drivers with support for the Vulkan API.

We can use yum to install mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64.

Install mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64

How To Uninstall mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64

mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libvulkan_intel.so
/usr/lib64/libvulkan_radeon.so
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/intel_icd.x86_64.json
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json

References

mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vulkan-drivers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.