How To Install cdrskin1 on CentOS 8

cdrskin1 is Limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper to ease migration to libburn1

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cdrskin1 on CentOS 8.

What is cdrskin1

A limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper which allows to use some libburn1 features from the command line.

We can use yum or dnf to install cdrskin1 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cdrskin1.

Install cdrskin1 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 cdrskin1 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cdrskin1

Install cdrskin1 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 cdrskin1 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cdrskin1

How To Uninstall cdrskin1 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cdrskin1 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cdrskin1

cdrskin1 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/cdrecord
/usr/bin/cdrskin1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/da2966046ea08432afc4641d1ca3938fffe078
/usr/share/man/man1/cdrecord.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cdrskin1.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cdrskin1 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.