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

In this tutorial we learn how to install theora-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. theora-tools.x86_64 is Command line tools for Theora videos

Introduction

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

What is `theora-tools.x86_64`

The theora-tools package contains simple command line tools for use with theora bitstreams.

We can use yum to install theora-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 theora-tools.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install theora-tools.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove theora-tools.x86_64

theora-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/png2theora
/usr/bin/theora_dump_video
/usr/bin/theora_encode
/usr/bin/theora_player

References

theora-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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