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libmatroska


Information about the package, libmatroska, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libmatroska package is designed for, Open audio/video container format library.


Package Name:

libmatroska

Summary:

Open audio/video container format library

Description:

Matroska is an extensible open standard Audio/Video container. It aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats. Matroska is usually found as .mkv files (matroska video) and .mka files (matroska audio).

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.2.0

Release:

1.el6

Size:

134 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for libmatroska


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install libmatroska

This command will install libmatroska on the server.

yum remove libmatroska

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

yum -y remove libmatroska

This command will un-install libmatroska 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 libmatroska when using the -y flag.

yum update libmatroska

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

yum -y update libmatroska

This command will update libmatroska 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 libmatroska when using the -y flag.

yum info libmatroska

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

yum deplist libmatroska

This command will show you the dependencies for libmatroska. 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 libmatroska

This command will check if there is an update waiting on libmatroska. 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.