How To Install speexdsp on CentOS 8

speexdsp is A voice compression format (DSP) A voice compression format (DSP)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speexdsp on CentOS 8.

What is speexdsp

Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail). This is the DSP package, see the speex package for the codec part. speexdsp 1.2 0.13.rc3.el8 x86_64 456 k speexdsp-1.2-0.13.rc3.el8.src.rpm appstream A voice compression format (DSP) http BSD Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail). This is the DSP package, see the speex package for the codec part.

We can use yum or dnf to install speexdsp on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install speexdsp.

Install speexdsp on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install speexdsp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install speexdsp

Install speexdsp on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install speexdsp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install speexdsp

How To Uninstall speexdsp on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the speexdsp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove speexdsp

speexdsp Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/995dadc74898b959b3f2c9039158489e8af449
/usr/lib/libspeexdsp.so.1
/usr/lib/libspeexdsp.so.1.5.0
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/README
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/TODO
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/manual.pdf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/6191efee66568549a898ad76ebaa016d263faf
/usr/lib64/libspeexdsp.so.1
/usr/lib64/libspeexdsp.so.1.5.0
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/README
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/TODO
/usr/share/doc/speexdsp/manual.pdf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install speexdsp on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.