How To Install lirc-drv-portaudio on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-drv-portaudio on CentOS 7.

What is lirc-drv-portaudio

Part of the LIRC package suite which handles IR remotes. See the package lirc for more. This package contains a lirc user space driver which supports an IR receiver in microphone input using the portaudio library.

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

Install lirc-drv-portaudio on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lirc-drv-portaudio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lirc-drv-portaudio

Install lirc-drv-portaudio 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 lirc-drv-portaudio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lirc-drv-portaudio

How To Uninstall lirc-drv-portaudio on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the lirc-drv-portaudio package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lirc-drv-portaudio

References

• lirc-drv-portaudio website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-drv-portaudio on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.