How To Install aom on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on Rocky Linux 8. aom is Royalty-free next-generation video format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on Rocky Linux 8.

What is aom

The Alliance for Open Media’s focus is to deliver a next-generation video format that is - Interoperable and open; - Optimized for the Internet; - Scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth; - Designed with a low computational footprint and optimized for hardware; - Capable of consistent, highest-quality, real-time video delivery; and - Flexible for both commercial and non-commercial content, including user-generated content. This package contains the reference encoder and decoder.

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

Install aom on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install aom

Install aom on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install aom

How To Uninstall aom on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove aom

aom Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/aomdec
/usr/bin/aomenc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/1b60b8e1348c940b206d64504298f03dd779d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/4c2c64d0ac1a41313ac0576c8c2fc9d97f1b86
/usr/share/doc/aom
/usr/share/doc/aom/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aom/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/aom/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/aom
/usr/share/licenses/aom/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/aom/PATENTS

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.