How To Install gsound.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gsound.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gsound.x86_64 is Small gobject library for playing system sounds

Introduction

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

What is `gsound.x86_64`

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

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

sudo yum -y install gsound.x86_64

How To Uninstall gsound.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove gsound.x86_64

gsound.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gsound-play
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GSound-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgsound.so.0
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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