How To Install pulseaudio on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio
on CentOS 7.
What is pulseaudio
PulseAudio is a sound server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESOUND).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pulseaudio
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pulseaudio.
Install pulseaudio on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pulseaudio
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pulseaudio 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.
After updating yum database, We can install pulseaudio
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pulseaudio on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pulseaudio
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.