How To Install beep on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install beep in Fedora 36. beep is Beep the PC speaker any number of ways

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install beep on Fedora 36.

What is beep

Beep allows the user to control the PC speaker with precision, allowing different sounds to indicate different events. While it can be run quite happily from the command line, its intended place of use is within scripts, notifying the user when something interesting occurs. Of course, it has no notion of what is interesting, but it is really good at the notifying part.

We can use yum or dnf to install beep on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install beep.

Install beep on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install beep using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install beep

Install beep on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install beep using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install beep

How To Uninstall beep on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove beep

beep Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/modprobe.d/beep.conf
/usr/bin/beep
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/2a126cbe37f944f1f43a83068e6784bf2d34dc
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-pcspkr-beep.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-pcspkr-beep.rules
/usr/share/doc/beep/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/beep/CREDITS.md
/usr/share/doc/beep/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/beep/PERMISSIONS.md
/usr/share/doc/beep/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/beep/README.md
/usr/share/doc/beep/contrib/failure-beeps
/usr/share/doc/beep/contrib/morse2beep.pl
/usr/share/doc/beep/contrib/morse2beep.sed
/usr/share/doc/beep/contrib/success-beeps
/usr/share/man/man1/beep.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install beep on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).