How To Install adplug on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install adplug on Rocky Linux 8. adplug is Software library for AdLib (OPL2/3) emulation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install adplug on Rocky Linux 8.

What is adplug

AdPlug is a free software, cross-platform, hardware independent AdLib sound player library, mainly written in C++. AdPlug plays sound data, originally created for the AdLib (OPL2/3) audio board, directly from its original format on top of an OPL2/3 emulator or by using the real hardware. No OPL2/3 chips are required for playback.

We can use yum or dnf to install adplug on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install adplug.

Install adplug on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install adplug using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install adplug

Install adplug on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install adplug using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install adplug

How To Uninstall adplug on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the adplug package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove adplug

adplug Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/adplugdb
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/b0d32337a0fdbac6f7bf422389c7894c6f93fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/a1a8142b23ccad6f794307003016f36807e008
/usr/lib64/libadplug-2.3.3.so.0
/usr/lib64/libadplug-2.3.3.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/adplug
/usr/share/doc/adplug/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/adplug/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/adplug/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/adplug/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/adplug/NEWS.adplugdb
/usr/share/doc/adplug/README
/usr/share/doc/adplug/README.adplugdb
/usr/share/licenses/adplug
/usr/share/licenses/adplug/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/adplugdb.1.gz
/var/lib/adplug
/var/lib/adplug/adplug.db

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install adplug on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.