How To Install sbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sbc.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. sbc.i686 is Sub Band Codec used by bluetooth A2DP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sbc.i686`

SBC (Sub Band Codec) is a low-complexity audio codec used in the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) bluetooth standard but can be used standalone. It uses 4 or 8 subbands, an adaptive bit allocation algorithm in combination with an adaptive block PCM quantizers.

We can use yum to install sbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sbc.i686.

Install sbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sbc.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sbc.i686

How To Uninstall sbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sbc.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sbc.i686

sbc.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/sbcdec
/usr/bin/sbcenc
/usr/bin/sbcinfo
/usr/lib/libsbc.so.1
/usr/lib/libsbc.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/sbc-1.0
/usr/share/doc/sbc-1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sbc-1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sbc-1.0/ChangeLog

References

sbc.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sbc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.