How To Install libmpcdec.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpcdec.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libmpcdec.i686 is Musepack audio decoding library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpcdec.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libmpcdec.i686`

Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality. It’s not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won’t be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file. It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has rapidly developed and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code.

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

Install libmpcdec.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 libmpcdec.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmpcdec.i686

How To Uninstall libmpcdec.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libmpcdec.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libmpcdec.i686

libmpcdec.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libmpcdec.so.5
/usr/lib/libmpcdec.so.5.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec-1.2.6
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec-1.2.6/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec-1.2.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec-1.2.6/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec-1.2.6/README

References

libmpcdec.i686 website

Summary

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