How To Install libmpcdec.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpcdec.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmpcdec.x86_64 is Musepack audio decoding library

Introduction

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

What is `libmpcdec.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libmpcdec.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libmpcdec.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmpcdec.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmpcdec.x86_64

libmpcdec.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmpcdec.so.5
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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