How To Install icedax on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icedax on CentOS 8.
What is icedax
Icedax is a sampling utility for CD-ROM drives that are capable of providing a CD’s audio data in digital form to your host. Audio data read from the CD can be saved as .wav or .sun format sound files. Recording formats include stereo/mono, 8/12/16 bits and different rates. Icedax can also be used as a CD player.
We can use yum or dnf to install icedax on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icedax.
Install icedax 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 icedax using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install icedax
Install icedax 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 icedax using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install icedax
How To Uninstall icedax on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the icedax package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove icedax
icedax Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/cdda2ogg
/usr/bin/cdda2wav
/usr/bin/icedax
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/4a19b5495501ede4b57968a1c37c4a1cfcae26
/usr/share/doc/icedax
/usr/share/doc/icedax/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/Frontends
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/HOWTOUSE
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/NEEDED
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/OtherProgs
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/README
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/TODO
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/cdda_links
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/tracknames.pl
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/tracknames.pl.efi
/usr/share/doc/icedax/icedax/tracknames.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/cdda2ogg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icedax.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/list_audio_tracks.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icedax on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.