How To Install ladspa on Fedora 34

ladspa is Linux Audio Developer’s Simple Plug-in API, examples and tools

Introduction

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

What is ladspa

There is a large number of synthesis packages in use or development on the Linux platform at this time. The Linux Audio Developer’s Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) attempts to give programmers the ability to write simple `plugin’ audio processors in C/C++ and link them dynamically against a range of host applications. This package contains the example plug-ins and tools from the LADSPA SDK.

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

Install ladspa 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 ladspa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ladspa

Install ladspa 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 ladspa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ladspa

How To Uninstall ladspa on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ladspa

ladspa Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/analyseplugin
/usr/bin/applyplugin
/usr/bin/listplugins
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/a6bbbb3be314bd2f8ef77d4280eb4fa9107e7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/569016eee9244db6eca3ebd62943b9cdd9afeb
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/46045994a04adbcfe953adc5c89fea14ef7c70
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/6873848968e65e3db005ae0d3656c1d2b74ed2
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/1d5e242cf94bb16bca3599d9e6c537042cdd2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/ca78e5f00fa2494fb55341ceb0b693720616bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/3f931128f94d6f32c6d7f344bf489b2e8dfb02
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/f951693bcb54d0dca1dac12d2f95822fbe269d
/usr/lib64/ladspa
/usr/lib64/ladspa/amp.so
/usr/lib64/ladspa/delay.so
/usr/lib64/ladspa/filter.so
/usr/lib64/ladspa/noise.so
/usr/lib64/ladspa/sine.so
/usr/share/doc/ladspa
/usr/share/doc/ladspa/COPYING
/usr/share/ladspa
/usr/share/ladspa/rdf

References

Summary

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