How To Install squeezelite on Fedora 34

squeezelite is Headless music player for streaming from Logitech Media Server

Introduction

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

What is squeezelite

Squeezelite is a headless client for Logitech Media Server, and can be used in place of dedicated Squeezebox network music playing hardware.

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

Install squeezelite 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 squeezelite using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install squeezelite

Install squeezelite 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 squeezelite using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install squeezelite

How To Uninstall squeezelite on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove squeezelite

squeezelite Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/sysconfig/squeezelite
/usr/bin/squeezelite
/usr/bin/squeezelite-alsa
/usr/bin/squeezelite-pulse
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/ffc85112c139809b62a6ab3b68706c48bb5a96
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/8ced1fce28543177760f5a14154f72b5193dcd
/usr/lib/systemd/preset/70-squeezelite.preset
/usr/lib/systemd/system/squeezelite.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/squeezelite.service
/usr/share/doc/squeezelite
/usr/share/doc/squeezelite/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/squeezelite
/usr/share/licenses/squeezelite/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/squeezelite.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/squeezelite.service.7.gz
/var/lib/squeezelite
/etc/sysconfig/squeezelite
/usr/bin/squeezelite
/usr/bin/squeezelite-alsa
/usr/bin/squeezelite-pulse
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/db5254329ecfd28f299a21c9278ae0e6767847
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/c1f168b14d05673e06f3162c96d69b325778aa
/usr/lib/systemd/system/squeezelite.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/squeezelite.service
/usr/share/doc/squeezelite
/usr/share/doc/squeezelite/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/squeezelite
/usr/share/licenses/squeezelite/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/squeezelite.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/squeezelite.service.7.gz
/var/lib/squeezelite

References

Summary

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