How To Install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 7.
What is alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record sound across a network. There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and one for mixer control. This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record sound across a network. There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and one for mixer control.
We can use yum or dnf to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.
Install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
Install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
