How To Install pavucontrol.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pavucontrol.x86_64 is Volume control for PulseAudio

Introduction

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

What is `pavucontrol.x86_64`

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume control tool (“mixer”) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately.

We can use yum to install pavucontrol.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pavucontrol.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install pavucontrol.x86_64

How To Uninstall pavucontrol.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pavucontrol.x86_64

pavucontrol.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pavucontrol
/usr/share/applications/pavucontrol.desktop
/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol-3.0
/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol-3.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/pavucontrol-3.0
/usr/share/licenses/pavucontrol-3.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/pavucontrol
/usr/share/pavucontrol/pavucontrol.glade

References

pavucontrol.x86_64 website

Summary

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