How To Install libmatroska on Fedora 34

libmatroska is Open audio/video container format library Open audio/video container format library

Introduction

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

What is libmatroska

Matroska is an extensible open standard Audio/Video container. It aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats. Matroska is usually found as .mkv files (matroska video) and .mka files (matroska audio). libmatroska 1.6.3 1.fc34 x86_64 166 k libmatroska-1.6.3-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Open audio/video container format library https LGPLv2+ Matroska is an extensible open standard Audio/Video container. It aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats. Matroska is usually found as .mkv files (matroska video) and .mka files (matroska audio).

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

Install libmatroska 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 libmatroska using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmatroska

Install libmatroska 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 libmatroska using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmatroska

How To Uninstall libmatroska on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libmatroska

libmatroska Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/766ac9d355b62d0216c5c106ee08275b8a80ac
/usr/lib64/libmatroska.so.7
/usr/lib64/libmatroska.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska/LICENSE.LGPL
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/e0fdb45d8c5ed7d85bc1cfe9b829ca2fcb74a4
/usr/lib/libmatroska.so.7
/usr/lib/libmatroska.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska/LICENSE.LGPL
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/43bf44d6b3c6dd6332c9e1cd0fb91c281f5396
/usr/lib/libmatroska.so.7
/usr/lib/libmatroska.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska/LICENSE.LGPL
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/690cb943324d34b0946cc875e45e5abce9c50e
/usr/lib64/libmatroska.so.7
/usr/lib64/libmatroska.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska/LICENSE.LGPL

References

Summary

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