How To Install alsa-plugins-speex.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. alsa-plugins-speex.i686 is Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler

Introduction

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

What is `alsa-plugins-speex.i686`

The rate plugin is an external rate converter using the Speex resampler (aka Public Parrot Hack) by Jean-Marc Valin. The pcm plugin provides pre-processing of a mono stream like denoise using libspeex DSP API.

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

Install alsa-plugins-speex.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-plugins-speex.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-speex.i686

How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-speex.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove alsa-plugins-speex.i686

alsa-plugins-speex.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_speex.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_best.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_medium.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/10-speex.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex-1.1.1
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex-1.1.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex-1.1.1/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex-1.1.1/speexdsp.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex-1.1.1/speexrate.txt

References

alsa-plugins-speex.i686 website

Summary

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