How To Install esound-tools on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-tools on CentOS 8. esound-tools is Commandline tools to talk to the EsounD daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-tools on CentOS 8.

What is esound-tools

The esound-tools package includes commandline utilities for controlling the EsounD daemon.

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

Install esound-tools on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install esound-tools

Install esound-tools on CentOS 8 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 esound-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install esound-tools

How To Uninstall esound-tools on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove esound-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.