How To Install lame-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lame-libs on Rocky Linux 8. lame-libs is LAME MP3 encoding library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lame-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `lame-libs`

LAME MP3 encoding library.

We can use yum or dnf to install lame-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lame-libs.

Install lame-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install lame-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lame-libs

Install lame-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install lame-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lame-libs

How To Uninstall lame-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lame-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lame-libs

lame-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/f48100d91f52a7482e038f8250276bc107fdcd
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/lame-libs
/usr/share/doc/lame-libs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/lame-libs
/usr/share/licenses/lame-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/lame-libs/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/0fc083e8567d59c73dae7d45f5c4ea32c2a3be
/usr/lib64/libmp3lame.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/lame-libs
/usr/share/doc/lame-libs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/lame-libs
/usr/share/licenses/lame-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/lame-libs/LICENSE

References

lame-libs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lame-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.