How To Install ladspa on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ladspa on Rocky Linux 8. ladspa is Linux Audio Developer’s Simple Plug-in API, examples and tools

Introduction

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

What is ladspa

There is a large number of synthesis packages in use or development on the Linux platform at this time. The Linux Audio Developer’s Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) attempts to give programmers the ability to write simple `plugin’ audio processors in C/C++ and link them dynamically against a range of host applications. This package contains the example plug-ins and tools from the LADSPA SDK.

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

Install ladspa 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 ladspa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ladspa

Install ladspa 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 ladspa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ladspa

How To Uninstall ladspa on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ladspa

ladspa Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/analyseplugin
/usr/bin/applyplugin
/usr/bin/listplugins
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/d2d851712c17ebc48a9246afb1e69d66fa7d35
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/50bbd8039a36410d2f6326c7bd7002eb122194
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/7b88a76748d58dca23a6dde37975aebeb0b066
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/8d24e27e516d5ababf55fed598d5c52ab6704b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/8a2e232890e4b183fe883f3e613cdbd21304fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/2b0496f659eb31a3e9254337d63b6856835d28
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/711bce2167850d257d7c1e7b6dd1b2928523b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/eca9bccb9dcbed41d7e029eeb78fb3e52b6094
/usr/lib64/ladspa
/usr/lib64/ladspa/amp.so
/usr/lib64/ladspa/delay.so
/usr/lib64/ladspa/filter.so
/usr/lib64/ladspa/noise.so
/usr/lib64/ladspa/sine.so
/usr/share/doc/ladspa
/usr/share/doc/ladspa/COPYING
/usr/share/ladspa
/usr/share/ladspa/rdf

References

Summary

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