How To Install esound-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-libs on CentOS 8.
What is esound-libs
The esound-libs package includes the libraries required for applications to talk to the EsounD daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install esound-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install esound-libs.
Install esound-libs 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-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install esound-libs
Install esound-libs 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-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install esound-libs
How To Uninstall esound-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the esound-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove esound-libs
esound-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/d5f72d864569684aa2ddc9a116aa3a3567160b
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/c446fc7620533d880e103a96003c70716a5b91
/usr/lib64/libesd.so.0
/usr/lib64/libesd.so.0.2.39
/usr/lib64/libesddsp.so.0
/usr/lib64/libesddsp.so.0.2.39
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/README
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/TIPS
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/TODO
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/esound.sgml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.