How To Install shairplay on Fedora 34

shairplay is Apple AirPlay and RAOP protocol server

Introduction

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

What is shairplay

Free portable AirPlay server implementation similar to ShairPort. Currently only AirPort Express emulation is supported.

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

Install shairplay 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 shairplay using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install shairplay

Install shairplay 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 shairplay using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install shairplay

How To Uninstall shairplay on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove shairplay

shairplay Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/shairplay
/etc/shairplay/airport.key
/usr/bin/shairplay
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/1e9000c7b5507e8294c99dea58887f99051cee
/usr/lib/systemd/system/shairplay.service
/usr/share/doc/shairplay
/usr/share/doc/shairplay/README.md

References

Summary

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