How To Install media-player-info on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install media-player-info on CentOS 7. media-player-info is Data files describing media player capabilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install media-player-info on CentOS 7.

What is media-player-info

media-player-info is a repository of data files describing media player (mostly USB Mass Storage ones) capabilities. These files contain information about the directory layout to use to add music to these devices, about the supported file formats, etc. The package also installs a udev rule to identify media player devices.

We can use yum or dnf to install media-player-info on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install media-player-info.

Install media-player-info on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install media-player-info using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install media-player-info

Install media-player-info on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install media-player-info using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install media-player-info

How To Uninstall media-player-info on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the media-player-info package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove media-player-info

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install media-player-info on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.