How To Install jalv on Fedora 34

jalv is A simple but fully featured LV2 host for Jack

Introduction

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

What is jalv

jalv is a simple but fully featured LV2 host for Jack. It runs LV2 plugins and exposes their ports as Jack ports, essentially making any LV2 plugin function as a Jack application.

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

Install jalv 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 jalv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jalv

Install jalv 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 jalv using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jalv

How To Uninstall jalv on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jalv

jalv Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jalv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/cec65c2efa8097332a161d30e7e8129f8f2cd6
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/198f1e01f301a53194520203aa860ea94b7089
/usr/lib64/jack/jalv.so
/usr/share/doc/jalv
/usr/share/doc/jalv/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/jalv/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/jalv/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/jalv
/usr/share/licenses/jalv/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/jalv.1.gz

References

Summary

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