audacity is Multitrack audio editor
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audacity on CentOS 8.
What is audacity
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import files in various formats. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWidgets and the audio I/O supports PulseAudio, OSS and ALSA under Linux.
We can use yum or dnf to install audacity on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install audacity.
Install audacity 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 audacity using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install audacity
Install audacity 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 audacity using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install audacity
How To Uninstall audacity on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the audacity package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove audacity
audacity Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/audacity
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/05eb6418a551123cd2dbb8c7df45bd2147b6d5
/usr/share/appdata/audacity.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/audacity.desktop
/usr/share/audacity
/usr/share/audacity/EQDefaultCurves.xml
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/aud-do-support.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/dspprims.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/envelopes.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/equalizer.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/evalenv.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/fileio.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/follow.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/init.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/misc.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/nyinit.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/nyqmisc.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/nyquist-plot.txt
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/nyquist.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/printrec.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/profile.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand1.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand10.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand11.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand12.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand2.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand3.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand4.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand5.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand6.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand7.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand8.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mand9.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/mandpluk.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/marmstk1.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/rawwaves/sinewave.raw
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/sal-parse.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/sal.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/seq.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/seqfnint.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/seqmidi.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/sndfnint.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/stk.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/system.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/test.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/upic.sal
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/velocity.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/xlinit.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/xm.lsp
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/SilenceMarker.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/SoundFinder.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/SpectralEditMulti.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/SpectralEditParametricEQ.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/SpectralEditShelves.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/StudioFadeOut.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/adjustable-fade.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/beat.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/clipfix.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/crossfadeclips.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/crossfadetracks.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/delay.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/equalabel.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/highpass.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/limiter.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/lowpass.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/notch.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/nyquist-plug-in-installer.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/pluck.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/rhythmtrack.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/rissetdrum.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/rms.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/sample-data-export.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/sample-data-import.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/tremolo.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/vocalrediso.ny
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins/vocoder.ny
/usr/share/doc/audacity
/usr/share/doc/audacity/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/audacity/nyquist
/usr/share/doc/audacity/nyquist/Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/audacity/nyquist/license.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/audacity.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/audacity.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/audacity.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/audacity.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/audacity.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/audacity.svg
/usr/share/licenses/audacity
/usr/share/licenses/audacity/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu_ES/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_RS/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_RS@latin/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/audacity.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/audacity.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/audacity.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/audacity.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/audacity16.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/audacity32.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-mime-application-x-audacity-project.xpm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audacity on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
