How To Install audacious on CentOS 8

audacious is Advanced audio player

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious on CentOS 8.

What is `audacious`

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, currently based on GTK+ 2, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. It still features an alternative skinned user interface (based on Winamp 2.x skins). Historically, it started as a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS.

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

Install audacious 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 audacious using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install audacious

Install audacious 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 audacious using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install audacious

How To Uninstall audacious on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the audacious package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove audacious

audacious Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/audacious
/usr/bin/audtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/d334d9b700973f2111644f4775812e86ed90c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/285b40f13158d7a7dd51e6687d9a849e476a8a
/usr/share/appdata/audacious.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop
/usr/share/audacious
/usr/share/audacious/AUTHORS
/usr/share/audacious/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/audacious
/usr/share/doc/audacious/AUTHORS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/audacious.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/audacious.svg
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/cmn/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml_IN/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_RS/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/audacious.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/audtool.1.gz

References

audacious website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.