How To Install pulseaudio-utils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-utils on Rocky Linux 8. pulseaudio-utils is PulseAudio sound server utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-utils on Rocky Linux 8.

What is pulseaudio-utils

This package contains command line utilities for the PulseAudio sound server.

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

Install pulseaudio-utils 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 pulseaudio-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pulseaudio-utils

Install pulseaudio-utils 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 pulseaudio-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-utils

How To Uninstall pulseaudio-utils on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the pulseaudio-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pulseaudio-utils

pulseaudio-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/pacat
/usr/bin/pacmd
/usr/bin/pactl
/usr/bin/padsp
/usr/bin/padsp-32
/usr/bin/pamon
/usr/bin/paplay
/usr/bin/parec
/usr/bin/parecord
/usr/bin/pasuspender
/usr/bin/pax11publish
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/61f6c69c5b2e7766884aa049047ac8178d3d45
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/b1479d4cf13d528a00b657615b888c13f11a1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/bf52810575c2e516baf749321bb7421e21adb2
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/096d421df3ab9332a024fba14c3819379dbecb
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/b9dc97a988222d0a88d8a3d63a4054a9171b2e
/usr/share/man/man1/pacat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pacmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pactl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/padsp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pamon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/paplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/parec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/parecord.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pasuspender.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pax11publish.1.gz

References

Summary

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