How To Install gsound on Fedora 34

gsound is Small gobject library for playing system sounds Small gobject library for playing system sounds

Introduction

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

What is gsound

GSound is a small library for playing system sounds. It’s designed to be used via GObject Introspection, and is a thin wrapper around the libcanberra C library gsound 1.0.2 13.fc34 x86_64 35 k gsound-1.0.2-13.fc34.src.rpm fedora Small gobject library for playing system sounds https LGPLv2 GSound is a small library for playing system sounds. It’s designed to be used via GObject Introspection, and is a thin wrapper around the libcanberra C library

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

Install gsound 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 gsound using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gsound

Install gsound 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 gsound using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gsound

How To Uninstall gsound on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gsound

gsound Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gsound-play
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/3f7b9c4b7a4f81705b53c78b1c8ee8443687b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/002aa8b6aad0b68e5837f7ac1e472ec6c3e609
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GSound-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgsound.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgsound.so.0.0.2
/usr/share/doc/gsound
/usr/share/doc/gsound/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gsound/README
/usr/bin/gsound-play
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/5d8535bce55ba4efeae3b5efbc87d1f4d1a2be
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/eb688f6437e405dc661221f788791c1f3ab984
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GSound-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgsound.so.0
/usr/lib/libgsound.so.0.0.2
/usr/share/doc/gsound
/usr/share/doc/gsound/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gsound/README

References

Summary

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