How To Install movit on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install movit
on CentOS 8.
What is movit
Movit is a library for video filters. It uses the GPU present in many computers to accelerate computation of common filters and transitions, facilitating real-time HD video editing. This package contains the Movit shared library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install movit
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install movit.
Install movit 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 movit
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install movit
Install movit 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 movit
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install movit
How To Uninstall movit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the movit
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove movit
movit Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/f30ce6e0f5640e576acc980d35badd99e2557d
/usr/lib64/libmovit.so.8
/usr/lib64/libmovit.so.8.0.3
/usr/share/doc/movit
/usr/share/doc/movit/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/movit/README
/usr/share/licenses/movit
/usr/share/licenses/movit/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install movit
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.