How To Install mingw32-flac on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-flac in Fedora 36. mingw32-flac is Encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-flac on Fedora 36.

What is `mingw32-flac`

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form, flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for various music players. This package is MinGW compiled flac library for the Win32 target.

We can use yum or dnf to install mingw32-flac on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw32-flac.

Install mingw32-flac 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 mingw32-flac using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw32-flac

Install mingw32-flac 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 mingw32-flac using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw32-flac

How To Uninstall mingw32-flac on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the mingw32-flac package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mingw32-flac

mingw32-flac Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libFLAC++-6.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libFLAC-8.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC++
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC++/all.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC++/decoder.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC++/encoder.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC++/export.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC++/metadata.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/all.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/assert.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/callback.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/export.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/format.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/metadata.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/ordinals.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/stream_decoder.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/FLAC/stream_encoder.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libFLAC++.dll.a
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libFLAC.dll.a
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/flac++.pc
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/flac.pc
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/aclocal/libFLAC++.m4
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/aclocal/libFLAC.m4
/usr/share/doc/mingw32-flac
/usr/share/doc/mingw32-flac/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mingw32-flac/README
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-flac
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-flac/COPYING.FDL
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-flac/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-flac/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-flac/COPYING.Xiph

References

mingw32-flac website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-flac on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).