How To Install gst123 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 on CentOS 7. gst123 is Command line multimedia player based on gstreamer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 on CentOS 7.

What is gst123

The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on gstreamer. It plays all file formats gstreamer understands, so if you have a music collection which contains different file formats, you can use gst123 to play all your music files.

We can use yum or dnf to install gst123 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gst123.

Install gst123 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gst123 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gst123

Install gst123 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 gst123 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gst123

How To Uninstall gst123 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gst123 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gst123

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.