Information about the package, sox, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The sox package is designed for, A general purpose sound file conversion tool.
Package Name:
sox
Summary:
A general purpose sound file conversion tool
Description:
SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter SoX can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions, including sound effects.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
14.2.0
Release:
6.el6
Size:
376 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Control the sox package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install sox
This command will install sox on the server.
yum remove sox
This command will un-install sox on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sox, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove sox
This command will un-install sox on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove sox when using the -y flag.
yum update sox
This command will update sox to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sox, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update sox
This command will update sox to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove sox when using the -y flag.
yum info sox
This command will show you core information about the sox package.
yum deplist sox
This command will show you the dependencies for sox. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update sox
This command will check if there is an update waiting on sox. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.