How To Install pavucontrol on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol on Rocky Linux 8. pavucontrol is Volume control for PulseAudio

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `pavucontrol`

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume control tool (“mixer”) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately.

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

Install pavucontrol 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 pavucontrol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pavucontrol

Install pavucontrol 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 pavucontrol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pavucontrol

How To Uninstall pavucontrol on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove pavucontrol

pavucontrol Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/pavucontrol
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/d91eef3aedb4715ed83a3a786e4cd94fce4f53
/usr/share/applications/pavucontrol.desktop
/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol
/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol/README
/usr/share/licenses/pavucontrol
/usr/share/licenses/pavucontrol/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pavucontrol.mo
/usr/share/pavucontrol
/usr/share/pavucontrol/pavucontrol.glade

References

pavucontrol website

Summary

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