How To Install alsa-lib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-lib
on CentOS 8.
What is alsa-lib
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. This package includes the ALSA runtime libraries to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality as well as support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs. alsa-lib 1.2.4 5.el8 x86_64 471 k alsa-lib-1.2.4-5.el8.src.rpm appstream The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library http LGPLv2+ The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. This package includes the ALSA runtime libraries to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality as well as support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install alsa-lib
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-lib.
Install alsa-lib on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install alsa-lib
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install alsa-lib
Install alsa-lib on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install alsa-lib
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install alsa-lib
How To Uninstall alsa-lib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the alsa-lib
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove alsa-lib
alsa-lib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/asound.conf
/usr/bin/aserver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/f449ad5c4c1ee8d63e6012b2b7a463b911c799
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/ed4ef6e51a197f07add10ed1fb4cd0208b5833
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/43041427805dccfe7b4f545159d580acb32895
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libatopology.so.2
/usr/lib/libatopology.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf
/usr/share/alsa
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AACI.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP-MODEM.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP-SPDMA.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8810.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8820.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8830.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Audigy.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Audigy2.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Aureon51.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Aureon71.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CA0106.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8338-SWIEC.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8338.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8738-MC6.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8738-MC8.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8788.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CS46xx.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/EMU10K1.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/EMU10K1X.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ENS1370.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ENS1371.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ES1968.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Echo_Echo3G.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FM801.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FWSpeakers.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FireWave.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/GUS.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/HDA-Intel.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/HdmiLpeAudio.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICE1712.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICE1724.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH-MODEM.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH4.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Loopback.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Maestro3.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/NFORCE.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PC-Speaker.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PMac.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PMacToonie.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PS3.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/RME9636.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/RME9652.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/SB-XFi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/SI7018.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/TRID4DWAVENX.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/USB-Audio.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA686A.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8233.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8233A.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8237.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VX222.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VXPocket.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VXPocket440.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/YMF744.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/aliases.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/pistachio-card.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/vc4-hdmi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/center_lfe.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/default.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dpl.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dsnoop.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/front.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/hdmi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/iec958.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/modem.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/rear.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/side.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround21.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround40.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround41.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround50.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround51.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround71.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib/asoundrc.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib/modprobe-dist-oss.conf
/usr/share/licenses/alsa-lib
/usr/share/licenses/alsa-lib/COPYING
/etc/asound.conf
/usr/bin/aserver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/d5dd267c6dccf0986ad592beafc9397d1f01b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/954648eaef65630609c7308787150e9fef5a61
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/028b7499d3a2a123e1ea27f92efde027f2a75c
/usr/lib/modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf
/usr/lib64/libasound.so.2
/usr/lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/libatopology.so.2
/usr/lib64/libatopology.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/alsa
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AACI.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP-MODEM.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP-SPDMA.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ATIIXP.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8810.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8820.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/AU8830.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Audigy.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Audigy2.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Aureon51.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Aureon71.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CA0106.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8338-SWIEC.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8338.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8738-MC6.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8738-MC8.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CMI8788.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/CS46xx.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/EMU10K1.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/EMU10K1X.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ENS1370.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ENS1371.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ES1968.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Echo_Echo3G.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FM801.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FWSpeakers.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/FireWave.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/GUS.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/HDA-Intel.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/HdmiLpeAudio.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICE1712.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICE1724.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH-MODEM.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH4.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Loopback.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/Maestro3.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/NFORCE.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PC-Speaker.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PMac.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PMacToonie.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/PS3.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/RME9636.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/RME9652.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/SB-XFi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/SI7018.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/TRID4DWAVENX.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/USB-Audio.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA686A.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8233.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8233A.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VIA8237.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VX222.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VXPocket.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/VXPocket440.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/YMF744.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/aliases.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/pistachio-card.conf
/usr/share/alsa/cards/vc4-hdmi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/center_lfe.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/default.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dpl.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/dsnoop.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/front.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/hdmi.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/iec958.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/modem.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/rear.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/side.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround21.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround40.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround41.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround50.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround51.conf
/usr/share/alsa/pcm/surround71.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib/asoundrc.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib/modprobe-dist-oss.conf
/usr/share/licenses/alsa-lib
/usr/share/licenses/alsa-lib/COPYING
References
- [alsa-lib website](http://www.alsa-project.org/ http://www.alsa-project.org/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-lib
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.