How To Install vapoursynth-tools on CentOS 8

vapoursynth-tools is Extra tools for VapourSynth

Introduction

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

What is vapoursynth-tools

This package contains the vspipe tool for interfacing with VapourSynth.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install vapoursynth-tools

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

sudo yum -y install vapoursynth-tools

How To Uninstall vapoursynth-tools on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove vapoursynth-tools

vapoursynth-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/vspipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/f67c73d473804ded0c34cc905771233ed6b2aa

References

Summary

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