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

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. alsa-tools.x86_64 is Specialist tools for ALSA

Introduction

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

What is `alsa-tools.x86_64`

This package contains several specialist tools for use with ALSA, including a number of programs that provide access to special hardware facilities on certain sound cards. * hda-verb - Direct HDA codec access * hdajackretask - Reassign the I/O jacks on the HDA hardware * hdajacksensetest - The sense test for the I/O jacks on the HDA hardware

We can use yum to install alsa-tools.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-tools.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install alsa-tools.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove alsa-tools.x86_64

alsa-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/hda-verb
/usr/bin/hdajackretask
/usr/bin/hdajacksensetest
/usr/share/applications/hdajackretask.desktop
/usr/share/doc/alsa-tools-1.1.0/hda-verb
/usr/share/doc/alsa-tools-1.1.0/hda-verb/README
/usr/share/doc/alsa-tools-1.1.0/hdajackretask
/usr/share/doc/alsa-tools-1.1.0/hdajackretask/README

References

alsa-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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