How To Install alsa-plugins-oss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-oss.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. alsa-plugins-oss.i686 is Oss PCM output plugin for ALSA

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-oss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `alsa-plugins-oss.i686`

This plugin converts the ALSA API over OSS API. With this plugin, ALSA native apps can run on OSS drivers. This plugin provides the PCM type “oss”.

We can use yum to install alsa-plugins-oss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-plugins-oss.i686.

Install alsa-plugins-oss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install alsa-plugins-oss.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-oss.i686

How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-oss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the alsa-plugins-oss.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove alsa-plugins-oss.i686

alsa-plugins-oss.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_oss.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_oss.so
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pcm-oss.conf
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-oss-1.1.1
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-oss-1.1.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-oss-1.1.1/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-oss-1.1.1/README-pcm-oss

References

alsa-plugins-oss.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-oss.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.