How To Install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 8

alsa-plugins-speex is Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler

Introduction

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

What is `alsa-plugins-speex`

The rate plugin is an external rate converter using the Speex resampler (aka Public Parrot Hack) by Jean-Marc Valin. The pcm plugin provides pre-processing of a mono stream like denoise using libspeex DSP API. alsa-plugins-speex 1.1.9 1.el8 x86_64 39 k alsa-plugins-1.1.9-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler http LGPLv2+ The rate plugin is an external rate converter using the Speex resampler (aka Public Parrot Hack) by Jean-Marc Valin. The pcm plugin provides pre-processing of a mono stream like denoise using libspeex DSP API.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install alsa-plugins-speex

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

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-speex

How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove alsa-plugins-speex

alsa-plugins-speex Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/05a49825f7cde848040160089b1456f64fd021
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/a60cb5fda257045a3ff50f9adc7114a10e1aa5
/usr/lib/alsa-lib
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_speex.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_best.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_medium.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexdsp.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexrate.txt
/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/4efcda2852dda71dffc1e165aedbaacfa749bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/1d8b8e575dc84379cff82481a5a67a4c1f03c0
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_speex.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_best.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_medium.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexdsp.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexrate.txt

References

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

Summary

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