How To Install audiofile.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. audiofile.i686 is A library for accessing various audio file formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `audiofile.i686`

The Audio File library is an implementation of the Audio File Library from SGI, which provides an API for accessing audio file formats like AIFF/AIFF-C, WAVE, and NeXT/Sun .snd/.au files. This library is used by the EsounD daemon. Install audiofile if you are installing EsounD or you need an API for any of the sound file formats it can handle.

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

Install audiofile.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 audiofile.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install audiofile.i686

How To Uninstall audiofile.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the audiofile.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove audiofile.i686

audiofile.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/sfconvert
/usr/bin/sfinfo
/usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.1
/usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/README
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/TODO
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afCloseFile.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afCloseFile.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afGetDataOffset.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afGetFrameCount.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afGetFrameCount.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afGetFrameSize.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afGetFrameSize.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afGetTrackBytes.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitAESChannelData.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitAESChannelDataTo.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitAESChannelDataTo.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitByteOrder.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitChannels.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitCompression.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitCompression.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitFileFormat.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitFileFormat.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitRate.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitSampleFormat.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afInitSampleFormat.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afNewFileSetup.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afNewFileSetup.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afOpenFile.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afOpenFile.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afQuery.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afQuery.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afQueryDouble.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afQueryLong.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afQueryPointer.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afReadFrames.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afReadFrames.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afReadMisc.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afReadMisc.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSeekFrame.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSeekFrame.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSeekMisc.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSetErrorHandler.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSetErrorHandler.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSetVirtualByteOrder.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSetVirtualChannels.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSetVirtualPCMMapping.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSetVirtualSampleFormat.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afSetVirtualSampleFormat.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afTellFrame.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afWriteFrames.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afWriteFrames.3.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/afWriteMisc.3
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/asciidoc.conf
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/sfconvert.1
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/sfconvert.1.txt
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/sfinfo.1
/usr/share/doc/audiofile-0.3.6/docs/sfinfo.1.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/sfconvert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sfinfo.1.gz

References

audiofile.i686 website

Summary

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