Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 8.
What is alsa-plugins-speex
The rate plugin is an external rate converter using the Speex resampler (aka Public Parrot Hack) by Jean-Marc Valin. The pcm plugin provides pre-processing of a mono stream like denoise using libspeex DSP API. alsa-plugins-speex 1.1.9 1.el8 x86_64 39 k alsa-plugins-1.1.9-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler http LGPLv2+ The rate plugin is an external rate converter using the Speex resampler (aka Public Parrot Hack) by Jean-Marc Valin. The pcm plugin provides pre-processing of a mono stream like denoise using libspeex DSP API.
We can use yum or dnf to install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-plugins-speex.
Install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install alsa-plugins-speex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install alsa-plugins-speex
Install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install alsa-plugins-speex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-speex
How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the alsa-plugins-speex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove alsa-plugins-speex
alsa-plugins-speex Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/05a49825f7cde848040160089b1456f64fd021
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/a60cb5fda257045a3ff50f9adc7114a10e1aa5
/usr/lib/alsa-lib
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_speex.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_best.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_medium.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexdsp.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexrate.txt
/etc/alsa/conf.d
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/4efcda2852dda71dffc1e165aedbaacfa749bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/1d8b8e575dc84379cff82481a5a67a4c1f03c0
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_speex.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_best.so
/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_rate_speexrate_medium.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/60-speex.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexdsp.txt
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-speex/speexrate.txt
References
- [alsa-plugins-speex website](http://www.alsa-project.org/
http://www.alsa-project.org/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
