How To Install vulkan-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-filesystem.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. vulkan-filesystem.noarch is Vulkan filesystem package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `vulkan-filesystem.noarch`

Filesystem for Vulkan.

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

Install vulkan-filesystem.noarch 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 vulkan-filesystem.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vulkan-filesystem.noarch

How To Uninstall vulkan-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the vulkan-filesystem.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove vulkan-filesystem.noarch

vulkan-filesystem.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/vulkan
/etc/vulkan/explicit_layer.d
/etc/vulkan/icd.d
/etc/vulkan/implicit_layer.d
/usr/share/vulkan
/usr/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d
/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d

References

vulkan-filesystem.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.