How To Install alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 is Oss PCM output plugin for ALSA

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64`

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.x86_64 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.x86_64.

Install alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64

How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64

alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_oss.so
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-oss.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.