How To Install theora-tools on CentOS 8

theora-tools is Command line tools for Theora videos

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install theora-tools on CentOS 8.

What is theora-tools

The theora-tools package contains simple command line tools for use with theora bitstreams.

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

Install theora-tools 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 theora-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install theora-tools

Install theora-tools 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 theora-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install theora-tools

How To Uninstall theora-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the theora-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove theora-tools

theora-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/png2theora
/usr/bin/theora_dump_video
/usr/bin/theora_encode
/usr/bin/theora_player
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/7e48dc3622d7ad56727be52b90b4361ad7586a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/bbbad56fbd096dfb1a4100ab29b6b2e4d7e841
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/c4af331af31f1275230ed2e4d814bd35b1df87
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/aa4a06798b131e000aba789e528fb6491b9b17

References

Summary

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