How To Install celt051.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install celt051.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. celt051.x86_64 is An audio codec for use in low-delay speech and audio communication

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install celt051.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is celt051.x86_64

CELT (Constrained Energy Lapped Transform) is an ultra-low delay audio codec designed for realtime transmission of high quality speech and audio. This is meant to close the gap between traditional speech codecs (such as Speex) and traditional audio codecs (such as Vorbis). The CELT bitstream format is not yet stable, this package is a special version of 0.5.1 that has the same bitstream format, but symbols and files renamed from ‘celt*’ to ‘celt051*’ so that it is parallel installable with the normal celt for packages requiring this particular bitstream format.

We can use yum to install celt051.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install celt051.x86_64.

Install celt051.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 celt051.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install celt051.x86_64

How To Uninstall celt051.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the celt051.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove celt051.x86_64

celt051.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/celtdec051
/usr/bin/celtenc051
/usr/lib64/libcelt051.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcelt051.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/celt051-0.5.1.3
/usr/share/doc/celt051-0.5.1.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/celt051-0.5.1.3/README
/usr/share/doc/celt051-0.5.1.3/TODO

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install celt051.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.