How To Install flac on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flac on CentOS 8.
What is flac
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form, flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for various music players. This package contains the command-line tools and documentation.
We can use yum or dnf to install flac on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flac.
Install flac 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 flac using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flac
Install flac 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 flac using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flac
How To Uninstall flac on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the flac package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flac
flac Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/flac
/usr/bin/metaflac
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/245977d8e89df82477e9ad5fda72d0dcbbd54b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/8f730b15fa0fe72e8d239d28fc8b63106151f5
/usr/share/doc/flac
/usr/share/doc/flac/html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/changelog.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/developers.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/documentation.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/documentation_bugs.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/documentation_example_code.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/documentation_format_overview.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/documentation_tools.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/documentation_tools_flac.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/documentation_tools_metaflac.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/favicon.ico
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/features.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/flac.css
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/format.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/id.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/images
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/images/logo.svg
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/images/logo130.gif
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/license.html
/usr/share/doc/flac/html/ogg_mapping.html
/usr/share/man/man1/flac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/metaflac.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flac on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.