How To Install libvisual on CentOS 8

libvisual is Abstraction library for audio visualisation plugins Abstraction library for audio visualisation plugins

Introduction

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

What is libvisual

Libvisual is an abstraction library that comes between applications and audio visualisation plugins. Often when it comes to audio visualisation plugins or programs that create visuals they do depend on a player or something else, basically there is no general framework that enable application developers to easy access cool audio visualisation plugins. Libvisual wants to change this by providing an interface towards plugins and applications, through this easy to use interface applications can easily access plugins and since the drawing is done by the application it also enables the developer to draw the visual anywhere he wants. libvisual 1 0.4.0 25.el8 x86_64 145 k libvisual-0.4.0-25.el8.src.rpm appstream Abstraction library for audio visualisation plugins http LGPLv2+ Libvisual is an abstraction library that comes between applications and audio visualisation plugins. Often when it comes to audio visualisation plugins or programs that create visuals they do depend on a player or something else, basically there is no general framework that enable application developers to easy access cool audio visualisation plugins. Libvisual wants to change this by providing an interface towards plugins and applications, through this easy to use interface applications can easily access plugins and since the drawing is done by the application it also enables the developer to draw the visual anywhere he wants.

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

Install libvisual 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 libvisual using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libvisual

Install libvisual 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 libvisual using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvisual

How To Uninstall libvisual on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove libvisual

libvisual Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/46ceae41e82b36a12ea05b4984ce7ed2028d20
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvisual
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/README
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/1f9984fffccb6b4b54f1d2aa610af7943ee7b7
/usr/lib64/libvisual-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib64/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvisual
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/README
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo

References

Summary

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