How To Install audacious-plugins-exotic on CentOS 8

audacious-plugins-exotic is Optional niche market plugins for Audacious

Introduction

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

What is audacious-plugins-exotic

This package provides optional plugins for Audacious, which do not aim at a wide demographic audience. Most users of Audacious do not need this. For example, included are input plugins for exotic audio file formats, SID music (from Commodore 64 and compatibles), AdLib/OPL2 emulation, console game music, the Portable Sound Format PSF1/PSF2, Vortex AM/YM emulation, Nintendo DS Sound Format 2SF.

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

Install audacious-plugins-exotic 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-plugins-exotic using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install audacious-plugins-exotic

Install audacious-plugins-exotic 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-plugins-exotic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install audacious-plugins-exotic

How To Uninstall audacious-plugins-exotic on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove audacious-plugins-exotic

audacious-plugins-exotic Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/8f96cb1569507a52a61e1de29783f04d79d7ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/e8de6b4f655dacb8bbfdaea65e6a1c0d8fc0b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/9697b190a95f64198dbfb7c6807abea605265e
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/834f1753a6c9119ed13712abe1e4a17e5c9a71
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/d1f238bf47b615d4be3e5c205cdeea0f5ae727
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/5056246c59ea31228d06eb726f7b0edd4a0ef5
/usr/lib64/audacious/Input/adplug.so
/usr/lib64/audacious/Input/console.so
/usr/lib64/audacious/Input/psf2.so
/usr/lib64/audacious/Input/sid.so
/usr/lib64/audacious/Input/vtx.so
/usr/lib64/audacious/Input/xsf.so
/usr/share/appdata/audacious-plugins-exotic.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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