How To Install shairplay on Fedora 34
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.
