How To Install vorbis-tools on CentOS 8

vorbis-tools is The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec tools

Introduction

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

What is vorbis-tools

Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent- and royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. The vorbis package contains an encoder, a decoder, a playback tool, and a comment editor.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install vorbis-tools

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

sudo yum -y install vorbis-tools

How To Uninstall vorbis-tools on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove vorbis-tools

vorbis-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ogg123
/usr/bin/oggdec
/usr/bin/oggenc
/usr/bin/ogginfo
/usr/bin/vcut
/usr/bin/vorbiscomment
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/16efd94b0f586bbcac418a437099fa0209c5b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/4845668ea91efb0ef0e3319fdef5cb957772e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/38a525470f6d6eb8528d97414ca1d5735e9202
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/795fdb3e4e630da20d59f32bd19b77410df225
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/f19d6921e3c5eea2766433f8e2f4f557857bbf
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/c3c8d00ed3980aedf10de92c01e980a909ac6c
/usr/share/doc/vorbis-tools
/usr/share/doc/vorbis-tools/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vorbis-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/vorbis-tools/README
/usr/share/doc/vorbis-tools/ogg123rc-example
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/vorbis-tools.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/ogg123.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/oggdec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/oggenc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ogginfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vcut.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vorbiscomment.1.gz

References

Summary

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