How To Install pavucontrol on CentOS 8

pavucontrol is Volume control for PulseAudio

Introduction

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

What is `pavucontrol`

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume control tool (“mixer”) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately.

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

Install pavucontrol 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 pavucontrol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pavucontrol

Install pavucontrol 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 pavucontrol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pavucontrol

How To Uninstall pavucontrol on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove pavucontrol

pavucontrol Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/pavucontrol
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/d1f0f46270094bf1a529a6b3b1da664679c726
/usr/share/applications/pavucontrol.desktop
/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol
/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol/README
/usr/share/licenses/pavucontrol
/usr/share/licenses/pavucontrol/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/pavucontrol
/usr/share/pavucontrol/pavucontrol.glade

References

pavucontrol website

Summary

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