How To Install transflac on Fedora 34

transflac is Transcode FLAC to lossy formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install transflac on Fedora 34.

What is transflac

transflac is a front end command line utility (actually, a bash script) that transcodes FLAC audio files into various lossy formats.

We can use yum or dnf to install transflac on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install transflac.

Install transflac on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install transflac

Install transflac on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install transflac

How To Uninstall transflac on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove transflac

transflac Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/transflac.conf
/usr/bin/transflac
/usr/libexec/transflac
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-ck-codec.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-ck-input.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-ck-output.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-ck-quality.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-codec.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-figlet.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-help.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-progress-bar.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-set-colors.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-table.sh
/usr/libexec/transflac/src-tf-terminal-header.sh
/usr/share/doc/transflac
/usr/share/doc/transflac/README.md
/usr/share/doc/transflac/contributors.txt
/usr/share/licenses/transflac
/usr/share/licenses/transflac/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man1/transflac.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install transflac on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.