How To Install flac-libs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flac-libs on CentOS 7.
What is flac-libs
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 FLAC libraries. 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 FLAC libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install flac-libs on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flac-libs.
Install flac-libs 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-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flac-libs
Install flac-libs 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-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flac-libs
How To Uninstall flac-libs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flac-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flac-libs
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flac-libs on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
