Step-by-step – Vulkan SDK Installation in Arch Linux

Installing

2. 2. Installing Dependencies

   Then to Install Dependencies
   Simply play:

   sudo dnf install @development-tools glm-devel cmake libpng-devel wayland-devel libpciaccess-devel libX11-devel libXpresent libxcb xcb-util libxcb-devel libXrandr-devel xcb-util-keysyms-devel xcb-util-wm-devel python git

   And if you wish to Build VkConfig then again execute:

   sudo dnf install qt qt5-qtwebengine-devel

3. 3. Downloading

   Download Vulkan SDK Release for Arch GNU/Linux

   Get Vulkan API tar.gz for Arch Linux

   Vulkan SDK Binaries for Arch Linux

4. 4. Installing Vulkan

   Then to Install Vulkan SDK in Arch Linux
   The Installation simply consist in Extracting the Vulkan SDK in a Location of your Choice.
   Here is shown a Local Installation, for a System Wide Setup use the sudo Command and Fix Permissions accordingly.
   So, first to Make the Target directory play:

   mkdir ~/vulkanSdk

   Then to decompress it into the Target folder use:

   tar xvzf ~/vulkansdk*tar.gz -C ~/vulkanSdk

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

5. 5. Setting Up Path

   Finally, to make it available Setup Path
   Editing the User’s Bash Config File:

   nano ~/.bashrc

   And append:

   /nexport VULKAN_SDK=~/vulkanSdk/1.1.[xx.y]/x86_64/nexport PATH=$VULKAN_SDK/bin:$PATH/nexport LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VULKAN_SDK/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH/nexport VK_LAYER_PATH=$VULKAN_SDK/etc/vulkan/explicit_layer.d
   

   Just Replace [xx.y] with the Current Version in the above Command.
   Ctrl+x to Save & exit from nano Editor.
   If no nano then first execute:

   sudo dnf install nano