How To Install libffado on Fedora 34

libffado is Free firewire audio driver library Free firewire audio driver library

Introduction

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

What is libffado

The FFADO project aims to provide a generic, open-source solution for the support of FireWire based audio devices for the Linux platform. It is the successor of the FreeBoB project. libffado 2.4.4 3.fc34 x86_64 858 k libffado-2.4.4-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Free firewire audio driver library http GPLv2 or GPLv3 The FFADO project aims to provide a generic, open-source solution for the support of FireWire based audio devices for the Linux platform. It is the successor of the FreeBoB project.

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

Install libffado 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 libffado using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libffado

Install libffado 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 libffado using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libffado

How To Uninstall libffado on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libffado

libffado Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/0b1ecb2b2969edf3b4b77aca1d545eca444199
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-ffado.rules
/usr/lib64/libffado.so.2
/usr/lib64/libffado.so.2.4.4
/usr/lib64/libffado/static_info.txt
/usr/share/doc/libffado
/usr/share/doc/libffado/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libffado/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libffado/README
/usr/share/libffado
/usr/share/libffado/configuration
/usr/share/licenses/libffado
/usr/share/licenses/libffado/LICENSE.GPLv2
/usr/share/licenses/libffado/LICENSE.GPLv3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/970310edcdcd0fa9d71abb4dcae8d50393d780
/usr/lib/libffado.so.2
/usr/lib/libffado.so.2.4.4
/usr/lib/libffado/static_info.txt
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-ffado.rules
/usr/share/doc/libffado
/usr/share/doc/libffado/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libffado/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libffado/README
/usr/share/libffado
/usr/share/libffado/configuration
/usr/share/licenses/libffado
/usr/share/licenses/libffado/LICENSE.GPLv2
/usr/share/licenses/libffado/LICENSE.GPLv3

References

Summary

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