How To Install pulsecaster on Fedora 34

pulsecaster is A PulseAudio-based podcast recorder

Introduction

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

What is pulsecaster

PulseCaster is a simple PulseAudio-based tool for making podcast interviews. It is designed for ease of use and simplicity. The user makes a call with a preferred PulseAudio-compatible Voice-over-IP (VoIP) softphone application such as Ekiga or Twinkle, and then starts PulseCaster to record the conversation to a multimedia file. The resulting file can be published as a podcast or distributed in other ways.

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

Install pulsecaster 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 pulsecaster using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pulsecaster

Install pulsecaster 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 pulsecaster using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pulsecaster

How To Uninstall pulsecaster on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pulsecaster

pulsecaster Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pulsecaster
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster-0.9-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster-0.9-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster-0.9-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster-0.9-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster-0.9-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/gsettings.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/gsettings.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/listener.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/listener.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/source.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/source.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/ui.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/__pycache__/ui.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/gsettings.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/listener.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/source.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pulsecaster/ui.py
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/pulsecaster.convert
/usr/share/appdata/pulsecaster.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/pulsecaster.desktop
/usr/share/doc/pulsecaster
/usr/share/doc/pulsecaster/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pulsecaster/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pulsecaster/README.md
/usr/share/doc/pulsecaster/TODO
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.pulsecaster.PulseCaster.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/pulsecaster-16.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/pulsecaster-24.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/pulsecaster-32.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/pulsecaster-48.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/pulsecaster-64.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/pulsecaster-logo.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/pulsecaster.svg
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pulsecaster.mo
/usr/share/pulsecaster
/usr/share/pulsecaster/pulsecaster.ui

References

Summary

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