How To Install jack_capture on Fedora 34

jack_capture is Record sound files with JACK

Introduction

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

What is `jack_capture`

Jack_capture is a program for recording sound files with JACK. It’s default operation is to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file, but it can do a number of other operations as well.

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

Install jack_capture 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 jack_capture using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jack_capture

Install jack_capture 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 jack_capture using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jack_capture

How To Uninstall jack_capture on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jack_capture

jack_capture Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jack_capture
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/d271ea47c1cff8126a42029584db8c5612fd9e
/usr/share/doc/jack_capture
/usr/share/doc/jack_capture/README
/usr/share/licenses/jack_capture
/usr/share/licenses/jack_capture/COPYING

References

jack_capture website

Summary

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