How To Install audacious on Fedora 34

audacious is Advanced audio player

Introduction

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

What is audacious

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, currently based on GTK+ 2, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. It still features an alternative skinned user interface (based on Winamp 2.x skins). Historically, it started as a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS.

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

Install audacious 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 audacious using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install audacious

Install audacious 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 audacious using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install audacious

How To Uninstall audacious on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove audacious

audacious Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/audacious
/usr/bin/audtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/9185394ffd046136ef8887bf79510754a3329c
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/9c93ecb0d26d92b45fcef8a22b8138c33f7212
/usr/share/appdata/audacious.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop
/usr/share/audacious
/usr/share/audacious/AUTHORS
/usr/share/audacious/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/audacious
/usr/share/doc/audacious/AUTHORS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/audacious.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/audacious.svg
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/cmn/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml_IN/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_RS/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/audacious.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/audtool.1.gz

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Summary

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