How To Install squeezelite on CentOS 8

squeezelite is Headless music player for streaming from Logitech Media Server

Introduction

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

What is squeezelite

Squeezelite is a headless client for Logitech Media Server, and can be used in place of dedicated Squeezebox network music playing hardware.

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

Install squeezelite 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 squeezelite using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install squeezelite

Install squeezelite 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 squeezelite using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install squeezelite

How To Uninstall squeezelite on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove squeezelite

squeezelite Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/sysconfig/squeezelite
/usr/bin/squeezelite
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/2d1655e11351d1abb4101ccc5672c05518d0ca
/usr/lib/systemd/preset/70-squeezelite.preset
/usr/lib/systemd/system/squeezelite.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/squeezelite.service
/usr/share/doc/squeezelite
/usr/share/doc/squeezelite/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/squeezelite
/usr/share/licenses/squeezelite/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/squeezelite.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/squeezelite.service.7.gz
/var/lib/squeezelite

References

Summary

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