How To Install pulseaudio-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-libs on Rocky Linux 8. pulseaudio-libs is Libraries for PulseAudio clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `pulseaudio-libs`

This package contains the runtime libraries for any application that wishes to interface with a PulseAudio sound server.

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

Install pulseaudio-libs 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 pulseaudio-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pulseaudio-libs

Install pulseaudio-libs 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 pulseaudio-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-libs

How To Uninstall pulseaudio-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the pulseaudio-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pulseaudio-libs

pulseaudio-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/pulse
/etc/pulse/client.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/839a02458f828161e19f0500c41a442f2a055e
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/caf1a388cdc53b10229a32eb27055f99213df8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/8568c891972936b691651c691be2f700b97714
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/e21f9135a15ee48ae074f4ec1c202ba474d96b
/usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0
/usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0.1.1
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0.23.0
/usr/lib/pulseaudio
/usr/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-14.0.so
/usr/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs/GPL
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs/README
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/etc/pulse
/etc/pulse/client.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/cc4df1d36a461716f09764d6c414065d0c0ab5
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/88710bce216de1554d9f2085057818b118227a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/0bb6c6a9371e4102eecd5caf98be0ebbbb65b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/fbc4715bccb5d60e62c33cec26192e4f0d7270
/usr/lib64/libpulse-simple.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpulse-simple.so.0.1.1
/usr/lib64/libpulse.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpulse.so.0.23.0
/usr/lib64/pulseaudio
/usr/lib64/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-14.0.so
/usr/lib64/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs/GPL
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/pulseaudio-libs/README
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pulseaudio.mo

References

pulseaudio-libs website

Summary

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