How To Install alsa-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-lib.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. alsa-lib.i686 is The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `alsa-lib.i686`

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. This package includes the ALSA runtime libraries to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality as well as support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.

We can use yum to install alsa-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-lib.i686.

Install alsa-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install alsa-lib.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-lib.i686

How To Uninstall alsa-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the alsa-lib.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove alsa-lib.i686

alsa-lib.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/asound.conf
/lib/libasound.so.2
/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
/lib/modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf
/usr/bin/aserver
/usr/share/alsa
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/README
/usr/share/alsa/cards
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AACI.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP-MODEM.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP-SPDMA.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8810.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8820.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8830.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Audigy.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Audigy2.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Aureon51.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Aureon71.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CA0106.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8338-SWIEC.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8338.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8738-MC6.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8738-MC8.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8788.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CS46xx.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/EMU10K1.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/EMU10K1X.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ENS1370.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ENS1371.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ES1968.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Echo_Echo3G.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FM801.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FWSpeakers.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FireWave.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/GUS.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/HDA-Intel.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/HdmiLpeAudio.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICE1712.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICE1724.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH-MODEM.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH4.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Loopback.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Maestro3.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/NFORCE.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PC-Speaker.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PMac.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PMacToonie.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PS3.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/RME9636.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/RME9652.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/SB-XFi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/SI7018.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/TRID4DWAVENX.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/USB-Audio.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA686A.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8233.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8233A.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8237.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VX222.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VXPocket.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VXPocket440.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/YMF744.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/aliases.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/pistachio-card.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/vc4-hdmi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/center_lfe.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/default.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dpl.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dsnoop.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/front.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/hdmi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/iec958.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/modem.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/rear.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/side.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround21.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround40.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround41.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround50.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround51.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround71.conf
/usr/share/alsa/topology
/usr/share/alsa/topology/broadwell
/usr/share/alsa/topology/broadwell/broadwell.conf
/usr/share/alsa/topology/bxtrt298
/usr/share/alsa/topology/bxtrt298/bxt_i2s.conf
/usr/share/alsa/topology/sklrt286
/usr/share/alsa/topology/sklrt286/skl_i2s.conf
/usr/share/alsa/ucm
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.1.4.1
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.1.4.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.1.4.1/TODO
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.1.4.1/asoundrc.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib/modprobe-dist-oss.conf

References

alsa-lib.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.