How To Install lirc-drv-portaudio on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-drv-portaudio in Fedora 36. lirc-drv-portaudio is Portaudio LIRC User-Space Driver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-drv-portaudio on Fedora 36.

What is `lirc-drv-portaudio`

Part of the LIRC package suite which handles IR remotes. See the package lirc for more. This package contains a lirc user space driver which supports an IR receiver in microphone input using the portaudio library.

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

Install lirc-drv-portaudio 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 lirc-drv-portaudio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lirc-drv-portaudio

Install lirc-drv-portaudio 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 lirc-drv-portaudio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lirc-drv-portaudio

How To Uninstall lirc-drv-portaudio on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the lirc-drv-portaudio package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lirc-drv-portaudio

lirc-drv-portaudio Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/bb4318cd1ad4f14591e8b47b156b6e781cc059
/usr/lib64/lirc/plugins/audio.so
/usr/share/lirc/configs/audio.conf

References

lirc-drv-portaudio website

Summary

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