How To Install alsa-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-lib.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. alsa-lib.x86_64 is The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `alsa-lib.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-lib.x86_64.

Install alsa-lib.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-lib.x86_64

How To Uninstall alsa-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the alsa-lib.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove alsa-lib.x86_64

alsa-lib.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/asound.conf
/lib/modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf
/lib64/libasound.so.2
/lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0
/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.