How To Install sox.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sox.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. sox.i686 is A general purpose sound file conversion tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sox.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sox.i686`

SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter SoX can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions, including sound effects.

We can use yum to install sox.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sox.i686.

Install sox.i686 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 sox.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sox.i686

How To Uninstall sox.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sox.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sox.i686

sox.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/play
/usr/bin/rec
/usr/bin/sox
/usr/bin/soxi
/usr/lib/libsox.so.2
/usr/lib/libsox.so.2.0.1
/usr/lib/sox
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_alsa.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_ao.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_caf.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_fap.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_flac.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_mat4.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_mat5.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_oss.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_paf.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_pulseaudio.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_pvf.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_sd2.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_sndfile.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_vorbis.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_w64.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_wavpack.so
/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_xi.so
/usr/share/doc/sox-14.4.1
/usr/share/doc/sox-14.4.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sox-14.4.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sox-14.4.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/sox-14.4.1/README
/usr/share/man/man1/play.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sox.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/soxi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/soxeffect.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/soxformat.7.gz

References

sox.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sox.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.