How To Install libmatroska-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmatroska-devel on Rocky Linux 8. libmatroska-devel is Matroska container format library development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmatroska-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libmatroska-devel

Matroska is an extensible open standard Audio/Video container. It aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats. Matroska is usually found as .mkv files (matroska video) and .mka files (matroska audio). This package contains the files required to rebuild applications which will use the Matroska container format.

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

Install libmatroska-devel 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 libmatroska-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmatroska-devel

Install libmatroska-devel 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 libmatroska-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmatroska-devel

How To Uninstall libmatroska-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libmatroska-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libmatroska-devel

libmatroska-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/matroska
/usr/include/matroska/FileKax.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxAttached.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxAttachments.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxBlock.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxBlockData.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxChapters.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxCluster.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxClusterData.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxConfig.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxContentEncoding.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxContexts.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxCues.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxCuesData.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxDefines.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxInfo.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxInfoData.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxSeekHead.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxSegment.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxSemantic.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxTag.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxTags.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxTrackAudio.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxTrackEntryData.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxTrackVideo.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxTracks.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxTypes.h
/usr/include/matroska/KaxVersion.h
/usr/include/matroska/c
/usr/include/matroska/c/libmatroska.h
/usr/include/matroska/c/libmatroska_t.h
/usr/lib64/cmake/matroska
/usr/lib64/cmake/matroska/MatroskaConfig.cmake
/usr/lib64/cmake/matroska/MatroskaConfigVersion.cmake
/usr/lib64/cmake/matroska/MatroskaTargets-noconfig.cmake
/usr/lib64/cmake/matroska/MatroskaTargets.cmake
/usr/lib64/libmatroska.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libmatroska.pc

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Summary

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