How To Install libvpx on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libvpx
libvpx provides the VP8/VP9 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applications with the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, high quality, royalty free, open source codecs deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide.
We can use yum or dnf to install libvpx on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvpx.
Install libvpx 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 libvpx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvpx
Install libvpx 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 libvpx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvpx
How To Uninstall libvpx on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libvpx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvpx
libvpx Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/9916319fc921a69ec4e7ba573e2ba6798ac1a0
/usr/lib/libvpx.so.5
/usr/lib/libvpx.so.5.0
/usr/lib/libvpx.so.5.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvpx
/usr/share/doc/libvpx/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvpx/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/libvpx/README
/usr/share/licenses/libvpx
/usr/share/licenses/libvpx/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/7bc38dea26b8d50952e4efd909d2a43514e0dd
/usr/lib64/libvpx.so.5
/usr/lib64/libvpx.so.5.0
/usr/lib64/libvpx.so.5.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvpx
/usr/share/doc/libvpx/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvpx/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/libvpx/README
/usr/share/licenses/libvpx
/usr/share/licenses/libvpx/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.