How To Install speex-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install speex-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. speex-tools.x86_64 is The tools package for speex

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speex-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `speex-tools.x86_64`

Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. This package contains tools files and user’s manual for speex.

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

Install speex-tools.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 speex-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install speex-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall speex-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the speex-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove speex-tools.x86_64

speex-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/speexdec
/usr/bin/speexenc
/usr/share/man/man1/speexdec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/speexenc.1.gz

References

speex-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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