How To Install gsound.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gsound.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. gsound.i686 is Small gobject library for playing system sounds

Introduction

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

What is `gsound.i686`

GSound is a small library for playing system sounds. It’s designed to be used via GObject Introspection, and is a thin wrapper around the libcanberra C library

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

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

sudo yum -y install gsound.i686

How To Uninstall gsound.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove gsound.i686

gsound.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gsound-play
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GSound-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgsound.so.0
/usr/lib/libgsound.so.0.0.2
/usr/share/doc/gsound-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/gsound-1.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gsound-1.0.2/README

References

gsound.i686 website

Summary

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