How To Install pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 is PulseAudio EsounD daemon compatibility script

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64

A compatibility script that allows applications to call /usr/bin/esd and start PulseAudio with EsounD protocol modules.

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

Install pulseaudio-esound-compat.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 pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64

How To Uninstall pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64

pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/esdcompat
/usr/share/man/man1/esdcompat.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.