How To Install tsreport 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 tstools

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install tstools

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

What is tsreport 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 tsreport 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 tsreport 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 tsreport using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tstools

Install tsreport on CentOS 8 using yum

Because tsreport 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 tsreport package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tstools

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update tstools

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade tstools

How to Upgrade tsreport 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 tstools

How To remove tsreport from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove tstools

Extra info and code examples

TStools is a set of cross-platform command line tools for working with MPEG data. The emphasis is on relatively simple tools which concentrate on MPEG (H.264 and H.262) data packaged according to H.222 (i.e., TS or PS), with a particular interest in checking for conformance. Transport Stream (TS) is typically used for distribution of cable and satellite data. Program Stream (PS) is typically used to store data on DVDs. The tools are focussed on: * Quick reporting of useful data (tsinfo, stream_type) * Giving a quick overview of the entities in the stream (esdots, psdots) * Reporting on TS packets (tsreport) or ES units/frames/fields (esreport) * Simple manipulation of stream data (es2ts, esfilter, esreverse, esmerge, ts2es) * Streaming of data, possibly with introduced errors (tsplay)

Conclusion

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

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