How To Install libmpcdec on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpcdec in AlmaLinux 8. libmpcdec is Musepack audio decoding library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpcdec on AlmaLinux 8.

What is libmpcdec

Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality. It’s not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won’t be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file. It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has rapidly developed and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code.

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

Install libmpcdec on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install libmpcdec

Install libmpcdec on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install libmpcdec

How To Uninstall libmpcdec on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libmpcdec

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpcdec on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.