How To Install faad on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install faad

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install faad

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is faad and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install faad on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install faad on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install faad using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install faad

Install faad on CentOS 8 using yum

Because faad is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install faad package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install faad

How to upgrade (update) a single package faad using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like faad in this example you should use the following command:

yum update faad

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade faad

How to Upgrade faad on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update faad

How To remove faad from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the faad package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove faad

Extra info and code examples

FAAD2 is the fastest ISO AAC audio decoder available. FAAD2 correctly decodes all MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 MAIN, LOW, LTP, LD and ER object type AAC files. This package contains a command line interface to play AAC or MP4 files.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install faad using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the faad from CentOS 8.

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