How To Install wavbreaker on Fedora 34

wavbreaker is Tool for splitting .wav files

Introduction

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

What is wavbreaker

This application’s purpose in life is to take a wave file and break it up into multiple wave files. It makes a clean break at the correct position to burn the files to an audio cd without any dead air between the tracks. It will only read wave files, so use an appropriate tool to convert ogg, mp3, etc. files and then break them up.

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

Install wavbreaker 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 wavbreaker using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wavbreaker

Install wavbreaker 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 wavbreaker using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wavbreaker

How To Uninstall wavbreaker on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wavbreaker

wavbreaker Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wavbreaker
/usr/bin/wavinfo
/usr/bin/wavmerge
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/af71cd9e9c17246d8ed079bf4c3ce4579f7b52
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/5c07631a015298d9580909f87463a6a6ce9164
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/cb1a0db0164ddaf4c59a5c14d4f56fa2379d56
/usr/share/applications/wavbreaker.desktop
/usr/share/doc/wavbreaker
/usr/share/doc/wavbreaker/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wavbreaker/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/wavbreaker/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wavbreaker/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wavbreaker/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/wavbreaker/README
/usr/share/doc/wavbreaker/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/wavbreaker.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/wavbreaker.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/wavbreaker.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/wavbreaker.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wavbreaker.svg
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wavbreaker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/wavbreaker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/wavbreaker.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/wavbreaker.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wavinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wavmerge.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/wavbreaker.png

References

Summary

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