How To Install pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 is GLIB 2.x bindings for PulseAudio clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64

This package contains bindings to integrate the PulseAudio client library with a GLIB 2.x based application.

We can use yum to install pulseaudio-libs-glib2.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-libs-glib2.x86_64.

Install pulseaudio-libs-glib2.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-libs-glib2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64

How To Uninstall pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64

pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0.0.5

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.