Is pkg-config --modversion vulkan still supposed to work?

In the Linux Driver Installation Guide , Minimum requirements, it says I am supposed to be able to check what version of libvdpau and libvulkan are installed. I have tried running as user, sudo, su, and su sudo. The most I have gotten returned

Package vulkan was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vulkan.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'vulkan', required by 'virtual:world', not found

How do I get a valid response from pkg-config --modversion vdpau?