How To Install flac on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flac
on CentOS 7.
What is flac
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 contains the command-line tools and documentation.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install flac
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flac.
Install flac on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install flac
using yum
by running the following command:
Install flac 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.
After updating yum database, We can install flac
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall flac on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flac
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flac
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.