How To Install schroedinger on CentOS 8

schroedinger is Portable libraries for the high quality Dirac video codec

Introduction

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

What is schroedinger

The Schrödinger project will implement portable libraries for the high quality Dirac video codec created by BBC Research and Development. Dirac is a free and open source codec producing very high image quality video. The Schrödinger project is a project done by BBC R&D and Fluendo in order to create a set of high quality decoder and encoder libraries for the Dirac video codec.

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

Install schroedinger 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 schroedinger using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install schroedinger

Install schroedinger 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 schroedinger using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install schroedinger

How To Uninstall schroedinger on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove schroedinger

schroedinger Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/8eaee24dfa0e91e6853d016a011ed481a68a6e
/usr/lib64/libschroedinger-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libschroedinger-1.0.so.0.11.0
/usr/share/doc/schroedinger
/usr/share/doc/schroedinger/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/schroedinger/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/schroedinger
/usr/share/licenses/schroedinger/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/schroedinger/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/licenses/schroedinger/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/licenses/schroedinger/COPYING.MIT
/usr/share/licenses/schroedinger/COPYING.MPL

References

Summary

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