How To Install paman on Fedora 34

paman is Management tool for PulseAudio

Introduction

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

What is `paman`

PulseAudio Manager (paman) is a simple GTK frontend for the PulseAudio sound server. With paman you may browser most of PulseAudio’s internals. There is support for changing volume of sinks and sink outputs. You’re able to play samples from the sample cache.

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

Install paman 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 paman using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paman

Install paman 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 paman using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paman

How To Uninstall paman on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove paman

paman Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/paman
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/347485624a9f1c311bc12c7c4e957c1e2d6ef8
/usr/share/applications/paman.desktop
/usr/share/doc/paman
/usr/share/doc/paman/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/paman/README
/usr/share/paman
/usr/share/paman/paman.glade

References

paman website

Summary

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