How To Install wine-alsa on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-alsa on Rocky Linux 8. wine-alsa is Alsa support for wine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-alsa on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `wine-alsa`

This package adds an alsa driver for wine.

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

Install wine-alsa 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 wine-alsa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wine-alsa

Install wine-alsa 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 wine-alsa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wine-alsa

How To Uninstall wine-alsa on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the wine-alsa package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wine-alsa

wine-alsa Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/a978b8b7d18e21481c02193423f31d3238ab01
/usr/lib64/wine/winealsa.drv.so

References

wine-alsa website

Summary

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