How To Install libgdither.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdither.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgdither.x86_64 is Library for applying dithering to PCM audio sources

Introduction

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

What is `libgdither.x86_64`

Libgdither is a GPL’d library library for performing audio dithering on PCM samples. The dithering process should be carried out before reducing the bit width of PCM audio data (eg. float to 16 bit int conversions) to preserve audio quality.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgdither.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgdither.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgdither.x86_64

libgdither.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgdither.so.1
/usr/lib64/libgdither.so.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libgdither-0.6
/usr/share/doc/libgdither-0.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libgdither-0.6/README

References

libgdither.x86_64 website

Summary

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