How To Install libvisual on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisual
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libvisual
Libvisual is an abstraction library that comes between applications and audio visualisation plugins. Often when it comes to audio visualisation plugins or programs that create visuals they do depend on a player or something else, basically there is no general framework that enable application developers to easy access cool audio visualisation plugins. Libvisual wants to change this by providing an interface towards plugins and applications, through this easy to use interface applications can easily access plugins and since the drawing is done by the application it also enables the developer to draw the visual anywhere he wants.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libvisual
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvisual.
Install libvisual 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 libvisual
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvisual
Install libvisual 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 libvisual
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvisual
How To Uninstall libvisual on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libvisual
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvisual
libvisual Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/516adb316c5feccf66d524b6639d4f041faeaa
/usr/lib64/libvisual-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib64/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvisual
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/README
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/4dd61db92a21ab8173f0095641801c15432ca2
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvisual
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/README
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisual
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.