How To Install paprefs on Fedora 34

paprefs is Management tool for PulseAudio

Introduction

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

What is paprefs

PulseAudio Preferences (paprefs) is a simple GTK based configuration dialog for the PulseAudio sound server.

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

Install paprefs 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 paprefs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paprefs

Install paprefs 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 paprefs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paprefs

How To Uninstall paprefs on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove paprefs

paprefs Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/paprefs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/e94f0a45364172480cc40c5085b50ce2a7b5f8
/usr/share/applications/paprefs.desktop
/usr/share/doc/paprefs
/usr/share/doc/paprefs/README
/usr/share/licenses/paprefs
/usr/share/licenses/paprefs/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/paprefs.mo
/usr/share/paprefs
/usr/share/paprefs/paprefs.glade

References

Summary

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