How To Install gst123 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 in Fedora 36. gst123 is Command line multimedia player based on gstreamer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 on Fedora 36.

What is `gst123`

The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on gstreamer. It plays all file formats gstreamer understands, so if you have a music collection which contains different file formats, you can use gst123 to play all your music files.

We can use yum or dnf to install gst123 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gst123.

Install gst123 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 gst123 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gst123

Install gst123 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 gst123 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gst123

How To Uninstall gst123 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gst123 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gst123

gst123 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gst123
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/e98c8b3a446c814301ab3bb4ddccedf4eff574
/usr/share/doc/gst123
/usr/share/doc/gst123/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gst123/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gst123/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gst123/README
/usr/share/man/man1/gst123.1.gz

References

gst123 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).