How To Install fapg on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fapg in Fedora 36. fapg is Fast Audio Playlist Generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fapg on Fedora 36.

What is fapg

FAPG means Fast Audio Playlist Generator. It is a tool to generate list of audio files (Wav, MP3, Ogg, etc) in various formats (M3U, PLS, HTML, etc). It is very useful if you have a large amount of audio files and you want to quickly and frequently build a playlist. It is coded in C to be as fast as possible, and does not use any specific audio library (like ID3Lib). This allow you to deploy it faster and easier, and to have better performances since the less informations are loaded. In the other hand, this tool is not (yet) compatible with all the known formats.

We can use yum or dnf to install fapg on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fapg.

Install fapg on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install fapg

Install fapg on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install fapg

How To Uninstall fapg on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fapg

fapg Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/fapg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/03e69135d731726882aa715277820018d4ac43
/usr/share/doc/fapg
/usr/share/doc/fapg/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fapg/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fapg/README
/usr/share/licenses/fapg
/usr/share/licenses/fapg/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fapg.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fapg on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).