How To Install pulseaudio-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-utils in Fedora 36. pulseaudio-utils is PulseAudio sound server utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-utils on Fedora 36.

What is pulseaudio-utils

This package contains command line utilities for the PulseAudio sound server.

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

Install pulseaudio-utils 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 pulseaudio-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pulseaudio-utils

Install pulseaudio-utils 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 pulseaudio-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-utils

How To Uninstall pulseaudio-utils on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the pulseaudio-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pulseaudio-utils

pulseaudio-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/pacat
/usr/bin/pacmd
/usr/bin/pactl
/usr/bin/pamon
/usr/bin/paplay
/usr/bin/parec
/usr/bin/parecord
/usr/bin/pasuspender
/usr/bin/pax11publish
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/b226085ac9d89d53b31fe9ab76bcd8599fe6f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/02052972d5c046de26d837c67f5523765bfb30
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/5a66e6948869ad6f0262430b07c1f463be1550
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/c629a196883881f47496fae8aba1fe73e8e057
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/d434a210df85e825e910ec4140653fe17ded9f
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pacat
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pacmd
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pactl
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/padsp
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/paplay
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/parec
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/parecord
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pasuspender
/usr/share/man/man1/pacat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pacmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pactl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pamon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/paplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/parec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/parecord.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pasuspender.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pax11publish.1.gz

References

Summary

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