How To Install gst-validate-media-check-1.0 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 gst-validate

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install gst-validate

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

What is gst-validate-media-check-1.0 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 gst-validate-media-check-1.0 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 gst-validate-media-check-1.0 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 gst-validate-media-check-1.0 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gst-validate

Install gst-validate-media-check-1.0 on CentOS 8 using yum

Because gst-validate-media-check-1.0 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 gst-validate-media-check-1.0 package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gst-validate

How to upgrade (update) a single package gst-validate-media-check-1.0 using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like gst-validate-media-check-1.0 in this example you should use the following command:

yum update gst-validate

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade gst-validate

How to Upgrade gst-validate-media-check-1.0 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 gst-validate

How To remove gst-validate-media-check-1.0 from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gst-validate-media-check-1.0 package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove gst-validate

Extra info and code examples

The goal of GstValidate is to be able to detect when elements are not behaving as expected and report it to the user so he knows how things are supposed to work inside a GstPipeline. In the end, fixing issues found by the tool will ensure that all elements behave all together in the expected way.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install gst-validate-media-check-1.0 using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the gst-validate-media-check-1.0 from CentOS 8.

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