LAME

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LAME is a free software application used to encode audio into the MP3 file format.

Installation

Replace username with your username

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.98b8.tar.gz [wget path_of_lame]

tar -xvvzf  lame-3.98b8.tar.gz //extracts the lame

cd ~/lame-3.98 //goto lame folder

./configure --exec-prefix=/home/username/lame --prefix=/home/username/lame

make

make install

After the above step Export the variables using following commands:

export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export CPATH=$HOME/include:/usr/local/include:$CPATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH

Now you are ready to run LAME using 'lame' command.

Note: You have to Export the variables for each of your login session to enable 'lame' command to work.

External link

• The LAME Project