How To Install sox on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sox on CentOS 7.
What is sox
SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter SoX can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions, including sound effects. SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter SoX can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions, including sound effects.
We can use yum or dnf to install sox on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sox.
Install sox on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sox using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sox
Install sox 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 sox using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sox
How To Uninstall sox on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sox package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sox
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sox on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
