How To Install soxr on CentOS 8

soxr is The SoX Resampler library

Introduction

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

What is `soxr`

The SoX Resampler library `libsoxr’ performs one-dimensional sample-rate conversion – it may be used, for example, to resample PCM-encoded audio.

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

Install soxr 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 soxr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install soxr

Install soxr 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 soxr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install soxr

How To Uninstall soxr on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove soxr

soxr Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/61cbc499cbb5d60a8a8843b81d1cd8de5a81bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/4009c0665a2ea6ed6b765beb875455a381a0d8
/usr/lib64/libsoxr-lsr.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsoxr-lsr.so.0.1.9
/usr/lib64/libsoxr.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsoxr.so.0.1.2
/usr/share/doc/soxr
/usr/share/doc/soxr/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/soxr/README
/usr/share/licenses/soxr
/usr/share/licenses/soxr/LICENCE

References

soxr website

Summary

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