How To Install lame on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install lame in Fedora 36. lame is Free MP3 audio compressor

Introduction

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

What is lame

LAME is an open source MP3 encoder whose quality and speed matches commercial encoders. LAME handles MPEG-1, 2 and 2.5 layer III encoding with both constant and variable bitrates.

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

Install lame 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 lame using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lame

Install lame 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 lame using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lame

How To Uninstall lame on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove lame

lame Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/lame
/usr/bin/mp3rtp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/5ea67f274699094e22aadc1242f4624e6ae086
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/55718661bbcf04a7adc9feb98c94b67707573c
/usr/share/doc/lame
/usr/share/doc/lame/README
/usr/share/doc/lame/TODO
/usr/share/doc/lame/USAGE
/usr/share/doc/lame/about.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/abr.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/cbr.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/contact.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/contributors.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/detailed.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/history.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/index.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/introduction.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/links.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/list.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/ms_stereo.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/usage.html
/usr/share/doc/lame/vbr.html
/usr/share/man/man1/lame.1.gz

References

Summary

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