How To Install pulseaudio-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

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

What is pulseaudio-utils.x86_64

This package contains command line utilities for the PulseAudio sound server.

We can use yum to install pulseaudio-utils.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-utils.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall pulseaudio-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pulseaudio-utils.x86_64

pulseaudio-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pacat
/usr/bin/pacmd
/usr/bin/pactl
/usr/bin/padsp
/usr/bin/padsp-32
/usr/bin/pamon
/usr/bin/paplay
/usr/bin/parec
/usr/bin/parecord
/usr/bin/pasuspender
/usr/bin/pax11publish
/usr/share/man/man1/pacat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pacmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pactl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/padsp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pamon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/paplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/parec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/parecord.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pasuspender.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pax11publish.1.gz

References

• pulseaudio-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

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