How To Install pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64

X11 bell and security modules for the PulseAudio sound server.

We can use yum to install pulseaudio-module-x11.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-module-x11.x86_64.

Install pulseaudio-module-x11.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-module-x11.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64

How To Uninstall pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64

pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop
/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
/usr/lib64/pulse-10.0/modules/module-x11-bell.so
/usr/lib64/pulse-10.0/modules/module-x11-cork-request.so
/usr/lib64/pulse-10.0/modules/module-x11-publish.so
/usr/lib64/pulse-10.0/modules/module-x11-xsmp.so
/usr/share/man/man1/start-pulseaudio-x11.1.gz

References

• pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.