How To Install aom on CentOS 8

aom is Royalty-free next-generation video format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on CentOS 8.

What is `aom`

The Alliance for Open Media\u2019s focus is to deliver a next-generation video format that is - Interoperable and open; - Optimized for the Internet; - Scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth; - Designed with a low computational footprint and optimized for hardware; - Capable of consistent, highest-quality, real-time video delivery; and - Flexible for both commercial and non-commercial content, including user-generated content. This package contains the reference encoder and decoder.

We can use yum or dnf to install aom on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aom.

Install aom on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aom

Install aom on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aom

How To Uninstall aom on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the aom package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove aom

aom Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/aomdec
/usr/bin/aomenc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/1b60b8e1348c940b206d64504298f03dd779d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/4c2c64d0ac1a41313ac0576c8c2fc9d97f1b86
/usr/share/doc/aom
/usr/share/doc/aom/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aom/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/aom/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/aom
/usr/share/licenses/aom/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/aom/PATENTS

References

aom website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.