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