How To Install alsa-plugins-speex on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex on Rocky Linux 8. alsa-plugins-speex is Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `alsa-plugins-speex`

The rate plugin is an external rate converter using the Speex resampler (aka Public Parrot Hack) by Jean-Marc Valin. The pcm plugin provides pre-processing of a mono stream like denoise using libspeex DSP API.

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

Install alsa-plugins-speex 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 alsa-plugins-speex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alsa-plugins-speex

Install alsa-plugins-speex 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 alsa-plugins-speex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-speex

How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-speex on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the alsa-plugins-speex package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alsa-plugins-speex

alsa-plugins-speex Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/2062dc830614fae0134569bb8a9ef9bf7741dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/f78a8cd49a5e6ac6dc1814d461faa3fcc60149
/usr/lib/alsa-lib
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_speex.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_best.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_medium.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexdsp.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexrate.txt
/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/b0a81d6d08a63a7fcbf42b30c4fedbf981e069
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/a7ca048629f99116de78f08736b742041dd5f4
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_speex.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_best.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_medium.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexdsp.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexrate.txt

References

alsa-plugins-speex website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.