How To Install aom on Fedora 34

aom is Royalty-free next-generation video format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on Fedora 34.

What is aom

The Alliance for Open Media’s focus is to deliver a next-generation video format that is - Interoperable and open; - Optimized for the Internet; - Scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth; - Designed with a low computational footprint and optimized for hardware; - Capable of consistent, highest-quality, real-time video delivery; and - Flexible for both commercial and non-commercial content, including user-generated content. This package contains the reference encoder and decoder.

We can use yum or dnf to install aom on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aom.

Install aom on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aom

Install aom on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aom

How To Uninstall aom on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove aom

aom Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/aomdec
/usr/bin/aomenc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/31e5c1a158d20f526051c4ec5401dcb7d4fb06
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/bcc4f5786e2be6467f61ba4c13d43a3f958bae
/usr/share/doc/aom
/usr/share/doc/aom/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aom/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/aom/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/aom
/usr/share/licenses/aom/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/aom/PATENTS
/usr/bin/aomdec
/usr/bin/aomenc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/4adcbbe68f39da7c2b4613d1435e070a20611d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/e8d8e058ff401b0c94f95e3df6955769385cca
/usr/share/doc/aom
/usr/share/doc/aom/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aom/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/aom/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/aom
/usr/share/licenses/aom/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/aom/PATENTS

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.