How To Install beep on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install beep on Fedora 34.
What is beep
Beep allows the user to control the PC speaker with precision, allowing different sounds to indicate different events. While it can be run quite happily from the command line, its intended place of use is within scripts, notifying the user when something interesting occurs. Of course, it has no notion of what is interesting, but it is really good at the notifying part.
We can use yum or dnf to install beep on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install beep.
Install beep 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 beep using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install beep
Install beep 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 beep using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install beep
How To Uninstall beep on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the beep package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove beep
beep Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/modprobe.d/beep.conf
/usr/bin/beep
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/b6ca6f3049f5a1e744b5d2ed280b7c39938712
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-pcspkr-beep.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-pcspkr-beep.rules
/usr/share/doc/beep
/usr/share/doc/beep/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/beep/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/beep/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/beep/PERMISSIONS.md
/usr/share/doc/beep/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/beep/README.md
/usr/share/doc/beep/contrib/failure-beeps
/usr/share/doc/beep/contrib/success-beeps
/usr/share/man/man1/beep.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install beep on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
