How To Install alsamixergui on Fedora 34

alsamixergui is GUI mixer for ALSA sound devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsamixergui on Fedora 34.

What is alsamixergui

alsamixergui is a FLTK based frontend for alsamixer. It is written directly on top of the alsamixer source, leaving the original source intact, only adding a couple of ifdefs, and some calls to the gui part, so it provides exactly the same functionality, but with a graphical userinterface.

We can use yum or dnf to install alsamixergui on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsamixergui.

Install alsamixergui on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install alsamixergui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alsamixergui

Install alsamixergui on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install alsamixergui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsamixergui

How To Uninstall alsamixergui on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove alsamixergui

alsamixergui Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/alsamixergui
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/237c24b81d9907976178b6260b1255d9a99bfe
/usr/share/applications/alsamixergui.desktop
/usr/share/doc/alsamixergui
/usr/share/doc/alsamixergui/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/alsamixergui/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsamixergui/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/alsamixergui/README
/usr/share/pixmaps/alsamixergui.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsamixergui on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.