How To Install esound-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-libs on Rocky Linux 8. esound-libs is Library to talk to the EsounD daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `esound-libs`

The esound-libs package includes the libraries required for applications to talk to the EsounD daemon.

We can use yum or dnf to install esound-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install esound-libs.

Install esound-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install esound-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install esound-libs

Install esound-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install esound-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install esound-libs

How To Uninstall esound-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the esound-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove esound-libs

esound-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/d5f72d864569684aa2ddc9a116aa3a3567160b
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/c446fc7620533d880e103a96003c70716a5b91
/usr/lib64/libesd.so.0
/usr/lib64/libesd.so.0.2.39
/usr/lib64/libesddsp.so.0
/usr/lib64/libesddsp.so.0.2.39
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/README
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/TIPS
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/TODO
/usr/share/doc/esound-libs/esound.sgml

References

esound-libs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.