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

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-upmix on Rocky Linux 8. alsa-plugins-upmix is Upmixer channel expander plugin for ALSA

Introduction

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

What is `alsa-plugins-upmix`

The upmix plugin is an easy-to-use plugin for upmixing to 4 or 6-channel stream. The number of channels to be expanded is determined by the slave PCM or explicitly via channel option.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install alsa-plugins-upmix

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

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-upmix

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

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

sudo dnf remove alsa-plugins-upmix

alsa-plugins-upmix Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-upmix.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/26fd821f25a28014c1a929b4f60671284e2aa0
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_upmix.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/60-upmix.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-upmix
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-upmix/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-upmix/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-upmix/upmix.txt
/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-upmix.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/09571b304d7c6547dea53eed3cf021e39d2a2f
/usr/lib/alsa-lib
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_upmix.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/60-upmix.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-upmix
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-upmix/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-upmix/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-upmix/upmix.txt

References

alsa-plugins-upmix website

Summary

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