How To Install esound-tools on CentOS 8

esound-tools is Commandline tools to talk to the EsounD daemon

Introduction

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

What is esound-tools

The esound-tools package includes commandline utilities for controlling the EsounD daemon.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install esound-tools

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

sudo yum -y install esound-tools

How To Uninstall esound-tools on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove esound-tools

esound-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/esdcat
/usr/bin/esdctl
/usr/bin/esddsp
/usr/bin/esdfilt
/usr/bin/esdloop
/usr/bin/esdmon
/usr/bin/esdplay
/usr/bin/esdrec
/usr/bin/esdsample
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/d3dc79443b61df7e656a669596b9b2155b7256
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/59d0d3fe53f049f03f78f2713591ea88a09d97
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/80d32a776008a4f623ed4ee2979fbeddeb3102
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/252726e134338e11a80d7856fb1b8d8a17e99b
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/5ee2bc1b8493d9b36f404cadacb95a5c401e2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/9b270b5701a3dc51bb56b5b20049e4dc8f68f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/6a31e0580f89ec5622c117e396a8ca61812af8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/8fde7202c8de1246d807de4e27f090d7556a99
/usr/share/man/man1/esdcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdctl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esddsp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdfilt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdloop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdmon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdrec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdsample.1.gz

References

Summary

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