How To Install libmpcdec on Fedora 34

libmpcdec is Musepack audio decoding library Musepack audio decoding library

Introduction

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

What is `libmpcdec`

Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality. It’s not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won’t be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file. It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has rapidly developed and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code. libmpcdec 1.2.6 27.fc34 x86_64 29 k libmpcdec-1.2.6-27.fc34.src.rpm fedora Musepack audio decoding library http BSD Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality. It’s not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won’t be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file. It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has rapidly developed and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code.

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

Install libmpcdec 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 libmpcdec using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmpcdec

Install libmpcdec 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 libmpcdec using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmpcdec

How To Uninstall libmpcdec on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libmpcdec

libmpcdec Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/8ffff6f0906c049eff61b4a960443579b7fe38
/usr/lib64/libmpcdec.so.5
/usr/lib64/libmpcdec.so.5.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmpcdec
/usr/share/licenses/libmpcdec/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/42422107a5b53d1a00687fc56f5c5871ff2f81
/usr/lib/libmpcdec.so.5
/usr/lib/libmpcdec.so.5.0.2
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libmpcdec/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmpcdec
/usr/share/licenses/libmpcdec/COPYING

References

[libmpcdec website](http://www.musepack.net/ http://www.musepack.net/)

Summary

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