How To Install sox.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sox.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sox.x86_64 is A general purpose sound file conversion tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sox.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sox.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sox.x86_64.

Install sox.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 sox.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sox.x86_64

How To Uninstall sox.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sox.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sox.x86_64

sox.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/play
/usr/bin/rec
/usr/bin/sox
/usr/bin/soxi
/usr/lib64/libsox.so.2
/usr/lib64/libsox.so.2.0.1
/usr/lib64/sox
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_alsa.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_ao.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_caf.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_fap.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_flac.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_mat4.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_mat5.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_oss.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_paf.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_pulseaudio.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_pvf.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_sd2.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_sndfile.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_vorbis.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_w64.so
/usr/lib64/sox/libsox_fmt_wavpack.so
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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