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Installing YASM Using YASM

YASM is an assembler for Intel compatible CPUs. It is not used directly for the model development process. It is needed for installing ffmpeg. Here is the YASM main web page.

Installing YASM

Linux Install

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get -y install yasm

Mac Install

On Macs yasm is installed from source. In the installation instructions below, substitute the actual file name downloaded for YASM in place of yasm-1.1.0, since the YASM version number is likely to have changed.

• Download YASM. See the dowload page, reachable from the YASM main web page. This will be tar file, with a name like yasm-1.1.0.tar.gz, where the "1.1.0" is the yasm version number. Download it to any convenient directory, such as /tmp.
• sudo bash
• tar -xvf yasm-1.1.0.tar.gz This will create a directory call yasm-1.1.0
• cd yasm-1.1.0
• ./configure
• make
• make install
• ctrl-D to exit the privileged shell session

Windows Install

Using YASM

General remarks about using YASM.