How To Install audiofile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. audiofile.x86_64 is A library for accessing various audio file formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `audiofile.x86_64`

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

Install audiofile.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 audiofile.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install audiofile.x86_64

How To Uninstall audiofile.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the audiofile.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove audiofile.x86_64

audiofile.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/sfconvert
/usr/bin/sfinfo
/usr/lib64/libaudiofile.so.1
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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