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libmusicbrainz


Information about the package, libmusicbrainz, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libmusicbrainz package is designed for, Library for accessing MusicBrainz servers.


Package Name:

libmusicbrainz

Summary:

Library for accessing MusicBrainz servers

Description:

The MusicBrainz client library allows applications to make metadata lookup to a MusicBrainz server, generate signatures from WAV data and create CD Index Disk ids from audio CD roms.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.1.5

Release:

11.1.el6

Size:

88 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for libmusicbrainz


Control the libmusicbrainz package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install libmusicbrainz

This command will install libmusicbrainz on the server.

yum remove libmusicbrainz

This command will un-install libmusicbrainz on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libmusicbrainz, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove libmusicbrainz

This command will un-install libmusicbrainz on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libmusicbrainz when using the -y flag.

yum update libmusicbrainz

This command will update libmusicbrainz to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libmusicbrainz, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update libmusicbrainz

This command will update libmusicbrainz to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libmusicbrainz when using the -y flag.

yum info libmusicbrainz

This command will show you core information about the libmusicbrainz package.

yum deplist libmusicbrainz

This command will show you the dependencies for libmusicbrainz. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update libmusicbrainz

This command will check if there is an update waiting on libmusicbrainz. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.