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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install flac using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flac
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install flac using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flac
How To Uninstall flac on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flac package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flac
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flac on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
