The libvorbis package contains a general purpose audio and music encoding format. This is useful for creating (encoding) and playing (decoding) sound in an open (patent free) format.
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Download (HTTP): https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.7.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 50902641d358135f06a8392e61c9ac77
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
Doxygen-1.10.0 and texlive-20230313 (or install-tl-unx) (specifically, pdflatex and htlatex) to build the PDF documentation
Install libvorbis by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
To test the results, issue: make -j1 check.
Now, as the root user:
make install && install -v -m644 doc/Vorbis* /usr/share/doc/libvorbis-1.3.7
--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-docs: This switch enables building the documentation in formats other than the supplied html.