How To Install esound-daemon on CentOS 8

esound-daemon is EsounD daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-daemon on CentOS 8.

What is esound-daemon

EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon, is a server process that mixes several audio streams for playback by a single audio device. For example, if you’re listening to music on a CD and you receive a sound-related event from IM client, the two applications won’t have to queue for the use of your sound card. The daemon functionality was replaced with PulseAudio (PA) and the binary was dropped from Fedora in October 2007. However, on PA-disabled systems the daemon functionality was completely missing and therefore reintroduced to Fedora in June 2013 in form of subpackage. The daemon cannot run on PA-enabled systems.

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

Install esound-daemon 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 esound-daemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install esound-daemon

Install esound-daemon 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 esound-daemon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install esound-daemon

How To Uninstall esound-daemon on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the esound-daemon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove esound-daemon

esound-daemon Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/esd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/7b854f96f95fbae2876745ec844c2746fb87a2
/usr/share/man/man1/esd.1.gz

References

Summary

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