How To Install daala-tools on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install daala-tools on CentOS 7.

What is daala-tools

A new video compression technology. The goal of the project is to provide a video format that’s free to implement, use and distribute, and a reference implementation with technical performance superior to H.265. The daala-tools package contains a test player and encoder plus programs for testing daala support in your applications.

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

Install daala-tools on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install daala-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install daala-tools

Install daala-tools 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 daala-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install daala-tools

How To Uninstall daala-tools on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove daala-tools

References

• daala-tools website

Summary

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