How To Install taglib-extras on CentOS 8

taglib-extras is Taglib support for other formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install taglib-extras on CentOS 8.

What is taglib-extras

Taglib-extras delivers support for reading and editing the meta-data of audio formats not supported by taglib, including

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

Install taglib-extras 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 taglib-extras using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install taglib-extras

Install taglib-extras 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 taglib-extras using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install taglib-extras

How To Uninstall taglib-extras on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the taglib-extras package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove taglib-extras

taglib-extras Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/a806598d79e892f07101b0d4ae053754e2e13c
/usr/lib64/libtag-extras.so.1
/usr/lib64/libtag-extras.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/licenses/taglib-extras
/usr/share/licenses/taglib-extras/COPYING.LGPL

References

Summary

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