How To Install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

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

What is alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64

This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record sound across a network. There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and one for mixer control.

We can use yum to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.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-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64

How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64

alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.1.1
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.1.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.1.1/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.1.1/README-pulse

References

• alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 website

Summary

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