How To Install awesfx on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install awesfx on Fedora 34.
What is awesfx
The awesfx package contains various utility programs for controlling the AWE32/Emu10k1 sound driver. AWESFX includes asxfload and sfxload, the soundfont loaders; setfx, the chorus/reverb effect loader; aweset, a controller for setting parameters; and programs for converting soundfonts to text. If you use an AWE32 or Emu10k1 sound driver you should install the awesfx package.
We can use yum or dnf to install awesfx on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install awesfx.
Install awesfx 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 awesfx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install awesfx
Install awesfx 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 awesfx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install awesfx
How To Uninstall awesfx on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the awesfx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove awesfx
awesfx Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/alsa.d
/etc/alsa.d/load-soundfont
/etc/alsa.d/udev-soundfont
/usr/bin/asfxload
/usr/bin/aweset
/usr/bin/gusload
/usr/bin/setfx
/usr/bin/sf2text
/usr/bin/sfxload
/usr/bin/sfxtest
/usr/bin/text2sf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/fee8d63a6a5752dac9c8383d9de4528d87feac
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/95cec6c069bf69d01c870b713dc672e8291d2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/f83e6ae96d482aa2392165862f26b41e71c349
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/0782052c34807dc7ebb3edaed7a728ffb5e306
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/21d11a4f8db654906d8a471c4cb734f322b615
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/4b0df397830b1b267efa75437ed8ac9fc9655b
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/bf20aee31faf5a8a309c67b2702f0088645b51
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/abf8ddb2054597cbfe7c8632c460bc22121cc6
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/41-soundfont.rules
/usr/share/doc/awesfx
/usr/share/doc/awesfx/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/awesfx/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/awesfx/README
/usr/share/doc/awesfx/README-bank
/usr/share/doc/awesfx/SBKtoSF2.txt
/usr/share/doc/awesfx/setfx-sample.cfg
/usr/share/licenses/awesfx
/usr/share/licenses/awesfx/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/asfxload.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sfxload.1.gz
/usr/share/soundfonts
/usr/share/soundfonts/ch12msup.bnk
/usr/share/soundfonts/default-2m.bnk
/usr/share/soundfonts/emu8m.bnk
/usr/share/soundfonts/test.bnk
/usr/share/soundfonts/xgdefault.bnk
/usr/share/soundfonts/xgdrum.bnk
/usr/share/soundfonts/xgmap.bnk
/usr/share/soundfonts/xgsfx.bnk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install awesfx on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
