How To Install flac-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install flac-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. flac-libs.i686 is Libraries for the Free Lossless Audio Codec

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flac-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `flac-libs.i686`

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form, flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for various music players. This package contains the FLAC libraries.

We can use yum to install flac-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flac-libs.i686.

Install flac-libs.i686 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 flac-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flac-libs.i686

How To Uninstall flac-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the flac-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove flac-libs.i686

flac-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.6
/usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.6.3.0
/usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8
/usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8.3.0
/usr/share/doc/flac-libs-1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/flac-libs-1.3.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/flac-libs-1.3.0/COPYING.FDL
/usr/share/doc/flac-libs-1.3.0/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/flac-libs-1.3.0/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/doc/flac-libs-1.3.0/COPYING.Xiph
/usr/share/doc/flac-libs-1.3.0/README

References

flac-libs.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flac-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.