How To Install butt on Fedora 34

butt is Broadcast using this tool

Introduction

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

What is butt

butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports ShoutCast and IceCast and runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computers Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server. Recording is also possible. It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files.

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

Install butt 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 butt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install butt

Install butt 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 butt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install butt

How To Uninstall butt on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove butt

butt Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/butt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/4e00af63f824c675a15248e9e8ddde4c20bbc9
/usr/share/applications/butt.desktop
/usr/share/doc/butt
/usr/share/doc/butt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/butt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/butt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/butt/README
/usr/share/doc/butt/THANKS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/butt.svg
/usr/share/licenses/butt
/usr/share/licenses/butt/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/butt.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/butt16.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/butt32.xpm
/usr/bin/butt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/6747c01137bc28bcb180cd69e7e5e7f91860f0
/usr/share/applications/butt.desktop
/usr/share/doc/butt
/usr/share/doc/butt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/butt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/butt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/butt/README
/usr/share/doc/butt/THANKS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/butt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/butt.svg
/usr/share/licenses/butt
/usr/share/licenses/butt/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/butt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/butt.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/butt.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/butt16.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/butt32.xpm

References

Summary

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