How To Install ezstream on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ezstream on CentOS 7.
What is ezstream
Ezstream is a command line source client for Icecast media streaming servers. In its basic mode of operation, it streams media files or data from standard input without reencoding and thus requires only very little CPU resources. It can also use various external decoders and encoders to reencode from one format to another, and stream the result to an Icecast server. Additional features include scriptable playlist and metadata handling. All of its features make ezstream a very flexible source client. Supported media formats for streaming are MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. Native metadata support includes MP3 (ID3v1 only) and Ogg Vorbis, and many more formats understood by TagLib library.
We can use yum or dnf to install ezstream on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ezstream.
Install ezstream on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ezstream using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ezstream
Install ezstream 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 ezstream using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ezstream
How To Uninstall ezstream on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ezstream package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ezstream
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ezstream on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.