Information about the package, flac, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The flac package is designed for, An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Package Name:
flac
Summary:
An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec
Description:
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form, flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for various music players.
Architecture:
i686
Version:
1.2.1
Release:
7.el6_6
Size:
253 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD and GPLv2+
Control the flac package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install flac
This command will install flac on the server.
yum remove flac
This command will un-install flac on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove flac, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove flac
This command will un-install flac 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 flac when using the -y flag.
yum update flac
This command will update flac to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove flac, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update flac
This command will update flac 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 flac when using the -y flag.
yum info flac
This command will show you core information about the flac package.
yum deplist flac
This command will show you the dependencies for flac. 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 flac
This command will check if there is an update waiting on flac. 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.