How To Install cdparanoia.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cdparanoia.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cdparanoia.x86_64 is Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) extraction tool (or ripper)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cdparanoia.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cdparanoia.x86_64`

Cdparanoia (Paranoia III) reads digital audio directly from a CD, then writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM format. Cdparanoia doesn’t contain any extra features (like the ones included in the cdda2wav sampling utility). Instead, cdparanoia’s strength lies in its ability to handle a variety of hardware, including inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads. Cdparanoia is also good at reading and repairing data from damaged CDs.

We can use yum to install cdparanoia.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cdparanoia.x86_64.

Install cdparanoia.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cdparanoia.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cdparanoia.x86_64

How To Uninstall cdparanoia.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cdparanoia.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cdparanoia.x86_64

cdparanoia.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cdparanoia
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia-10.2
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia-10.2/COPYING-GPL
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia-10.2/COPYING-LGPL
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia-10.2/README
/usr/share/man/man1/cdparanoia.1.gz

References

cdparanoia.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cdparanoia.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.