How To Install libmatroska on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmatroska on Rocky Linux 8. libmatroska is Open audio/video container format library

Introduction

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

What is libmatroska

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).

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

Install libmatroska 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmatroska

Install libmatroska 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmatroska

How To Uninstall libmatroska on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libmatroska

libmatroska Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/7b2176f1dc3f381571a2c873532ab0ce254c24
/usr/lib64/libmatroska.so.6
/usr/lib64/libmatroska.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska
/usr/share/doc/libmatroska/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska
/usr/share/licenses/libmatroska/LICENSE.LGPL

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Summary

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