How To Install portaudio on CentOS 8

portaudio is Free, cross platform, open-source, audio I/O library

Introduction

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

What is portaudio

PortAudio is a portable audio I/O library designed for cross-platform support of audio. It uses a callback mechanism to request audio processing. Audio can be generated in various formats, including 32 bit floating point, and will be converted to the native format internally.

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

Install portaudio 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 portaudio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install portaudio

Install portaudio 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 portaudio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install portaudio

How To Uninstall portaudio on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove portaudio

portaudio Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/6cda2f1a51f9e15449be28491b43928abe4e7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/b3a855816063f27feaa16351c1937a031c2fb2
/usr/lib64/libportaudio.so.2
/usr/lib64/libportaudio.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/libportaudiocpp.so.0
/usr/lib64/libportaudiocpp.so.0.0.12
/usr/share/doc/portaudio
/usr/share/doc/portaudio/README.txt
/usr/share/licenses/portaudio
/usr/share/licenses/portaudio/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

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