How To Install pavucontrol on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol in Fedora 36. pavucontrol is Volume control for PulseAudio

Introduction

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

What is pavucontrol

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume control tool (“mixer”) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately.

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

Install pavucontrol 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 pavucontrol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pavucontrol

Install pavucontrol 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 pavucontrol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pavucontrol

How To Uninstall pavucontrol on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove pavucontrol

pavucontrol Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/pavucontrol
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/90039edd34a72aa7a7a1f9775fa1ba67f9cbee
/usr/share/applications/pavucontrol.desktop
/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol
/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol/README
/usr/share/licenses/pavucontrol
/usr/share/licenses/pavucontrol/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb_NO/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.pulseaudio.pavucontrol.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pavucontrol
/usr/share/pavucontrol/pavucontrol.glade

References

Summary

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