How To Install arts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install arts on CentOS 7. arts is aRts (analog realtime synthesizer) - the KDE sound system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install arts on CentOS 7.

What is arts

arts (analog real-time synthesizer) is the sound system of KDE 3. The principle of arts is to create/process sound using small modules which do certain tasks. These may be create a waveform (oscillators), play samples, filter data, add signals, perform effects like delay/flanger/chorus, or output the data to the soundcard. By connecting all those small modules together, you can perform complex tasks like simulating a mixer, generating an instrument or things like playing a wave file with some effects.

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

Install arts on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install arts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install arts

Install arts 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 arts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install arts

How To Uninstall arts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove arts

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Summary

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