How To Install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 8

alsa-plugins-pulseaudio is Alsa to PulseAudio backend Alsa to PulseAudio backend

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 8.

What is `alsa-plugins-pulseaudio`

This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record sound across a network. There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and one for mixer control. alsa-plugins-pulseaudio 1.1.9 1.el8 x86_64 49 k alsa-plugins-1.1.9-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Alsa to PulseAudio backend http LGPLv2+ This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record sound across a network. There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and one for mixer control.

We can use yum or dnf to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.

Install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio 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-plugins-pulseaudio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

Install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio 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-plugins-pulseaudio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

alsa-plugins-pulseaudio Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
/etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/528515fddada20a3dd97815a7982178682ace7
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/35f1de347476426465e6e2a521f8f14a25285c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/6a8ef5220cd9e1459576221c802f1b7beb137f
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio/README-pulse
/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
/etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/50b9a8ef3a941aedfe22ade6e0aa6417be4a87
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/2359b9930953f7282e79ec025c07002426b9b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/b1912711676d6bb6e32bfa829cfa13ca866845
/usr/lib/alsa-lib
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio/README-pulse

References

[alsa-plugins-pulseaudio website](http://www.alsa-project.org/ http://www.alsa-project.org/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.