How To Install cdparanoia on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cdparanoia on AlmaLinux 8.
What is cdparanoia
Cdparanoia (Paranoia III) reads digital audio directly from a CD, then writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM format. Cdparanoia doesn’t contain any extra features (like the ones included in the cdda2wav sampling utility). Instead, cdparanoia’s strength lies in its ability to handle a variety of hardware, including inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads. Cdparanoia is also good at reading and repairing data from damaged CDs.
We can use yum or dnf to install cdparanoia on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cdparanoia.
Install cdparanoia on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install cdparanoia using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cdparanoia
Install cdparanoia on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install cdparanoia using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cdparanoia
How To Uninstall cdparanoia on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the cdparanoia package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cdparanoia
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cdparanoia on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
