How To Install alsa-tools on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-tools on CentOS 7. alsa-tools is Specialist tools for ALSA

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-tools on CentOS 7.

What is `alsa-tools`

This package contains several specialist tools for use with ALSA, including a number of programs that provide access to special hardware facilities on certain sound cards. * hda-verb - Direct HDA codec access * hdajackretask - Reassign the I/O jacks on the HDA hardware * hdajacksensetest - The sense test for the I/O jacks on the HDA hardware

We can use yum or dnf to install alsa-tools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-tools.

Install alsa-tools 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-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-tools

Install alsa-tools 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-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alsa-tools

How To Uninstall alsa-tools on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the alsa-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alsa-tools

References

alsa-tools website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-tools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.