How To Install alsa-sof-firmware-debug on CentOS 8

alsa-sof-firmware-debug is Debug files for Sound Open Firmware project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-sof-firmware-debug on CentOS 8.

What is alsa-sof-firmware-debug

This package contains the debug files for the Sound Open Firmware project.

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

Install alsa-sof-firmware-debug 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-sof-firmware-debug using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alsa-sof-firmware-debug

Install alsa-sof-firmware-debug 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-sof-firmware-debug using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-sof-firmware-debug

How To Uninstall alsa-sof-firmware-debug on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the alsa-sof-firmware-debug package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alsa-sof-firmware-debug

alsa-sof-firmware-debug Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-apl.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-bdw.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-byt.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-cht.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-cnl.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-ehl.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-icl.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-jsl-v1.6.1.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-tgl-h.ldc
/usr/lib/firmware/intel/sof/sof-tgl.ldc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-sof-firmware-debug on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.