Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious on CentOS 8.
What is audacious
Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, currently based on GTK+ 2, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. It still features an alternative skinned user interface (based on Winamp 2.x skins). Historically, it started as a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS.
We can use yum or dnf to install audacious on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install audacious.
Install audacious 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 audacious using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install audacious
Install audacious 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 audacious using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install audacious
How To Uninstall audacious on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the audacious package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove audacious
audacious Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/audacious
/usr/bin/audtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/d334d9b700973f2111644f4775812e86ed90c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/285b40f13158d7a7dd51e6687d9a849e476a8a
/usr/share/appdata/audacious.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop
/usr/share/audacious
/usr/share/audacious/AUTHORS
/usr/share/audacious/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/audacious
/usr/share/doc/audacious/AUTHORS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/audacious.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/audacious.svg
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/cmn/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml_IN/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_RS/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/audacious.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/audacious.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/audtool.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
