How To Install mingw32-flac-tools on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-flac-tools in Fedora 36. mingw32-flac-tools is Tools for Free Lossless Audio Codec

Introduction

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

What is mingw32-flac-tools

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 tools for the Win32 target.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install mingw32-flac-tools

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

sudo yum -y install mingw32-flac-tools

How To Uninstall mingw32-flac-tools on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove mingw32-flac-tools

mingw32-flac-tools Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/flac.exe
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/metaflac.exe

References

Summary

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