How To Install libvisual on Fedora 34

libvisual is Abstraction library for audio visualisation plugins Abstraction library for audio visualisation plugins

Introduction

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

What is `libvisual`

Libvisual is an abstraction library that comes between applications and audio visualisation plugins. Often when it comes to audio visualisation plugins or programs that create visuals they do depend on a player or something else, basically there is no general framework that enable application developers to easy access cool audio visualisation plugins. Libvisual wants to change this by providing an interface towards plugins and applications, through this easy to use interface applications can easily access plugins and since the drawing is done by the application it also enables the developer to draw the visual anywhere he wants. libvisual 1 0.4.0 32.fc34 x86_64 147 k libvisual-0.4.0-32.fc34.src.rpm fedora Abstraction library for audio visualisation plugins http LGPLv2+ Libvisual is an abstraction library that comes between applications and audio visualisation plugins. Often when it comes to audio visualisation plugins or programs that create visuals they do depend on a player or something else, basically there is no general framework that enable application developers to easy access cool audio visualisation plugins. Libvisual wants to change this by providing an interface towards plugins and applications, through this easy to use interface applications can easily access plugins and since the drawing is done by the application it also enables the developer to draw the visual anywhere he wants.

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

Install libvisual 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 libvisual using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libvisual

Install libvisual 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 libvisual using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvisual

How To Uninstall libvisual on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libvisual

libvisual Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/bd874d2986e2cd69d8c99cb946a36baebdbe1d
/usr/lib64/libvisual-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib64/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvisual
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/README
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/01de0ce3b238a334a724de128f6b201ae22c9a
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvisual
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/README
/usr/share/doc/libvisual/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual
/usr/share/licenses/libvisual/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/libvisual-0.4.mo

References

[libvisual website](http://libvisual.sf.net http://libvisual.sf.net)

Summary

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