How To Install esound-daemon on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-daemon on AlmaLinux 8.
What is esound-daemon
EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon, is a server process that mixes several audio streams for playback by a single audio device. For example, if you’re listening to music on a CD and you receive a sound-related event from IM client, the two applications won’t have to queue for the use of your sound card. The daemon functionality was replaced with PulseAudio (PA) and the binary was dropped from Fedora in October 2007. However, on PA-disabled systems the daemon functionality was completely missing and therefore reintroduced to Fedora in June 2013 in form of subpackage. The daemon cannot run on PA-enabled systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install esound-daemon on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install esound-daemon.
Install esound-daemon on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install esound-daemon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install esound-daemon
Install esound-daemon on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install esound-daemon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install esound-daemon
How To Uninstall esound-daemon on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the esound-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove esound-daemon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-daemon on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
