How To Install aom on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on CentOS 7. aom is Royalty-free next-generation video format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on CentOS 7.

What is aom

The Alliance for Open Media’s focus is to deliver a next-generation video format that is - Interoperable and open; - Optimized for the Internet; - Scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth; - Designed with a low computational footprint and optimized for hardware; - Capable of consistent, highest-quality, real-time video delivery; and - Flexible for both commercial and non-commercial content, including user-generated content. This package contains the reference encoder and decoder.

We can use yum or dnf to install aom on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aom.

Install aom on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install aom

Install aom on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install aom

How To Uninstall aom on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove aom

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.