[PlanetCCRMA] Newbie question re: ALSA

[Michael Peters]

Bill Bain wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  Moving to Linux from WIndows
> hasn't been as easy as I thought it would be.
> 
> Well, I Googled "Centos and Alsa" and found a site
> that listed RPMs for Centos.  Alsa was listed so I
> d/l'ed it and when it tried to install it, it reported
> that Alsa was already installed!?
> 
> I suppose before I worry about installing new
> programs, I should figure out what's already
> installed, huh? :-)
> 
> I'm new to Linux, but there's got to be some method
> for it to report what's already installed, right?

If you're using rpm's you can just query them with the rpm tool.

 localhost]# rpm -qa

That means 'query' 'all'. Of course this is a long listing, so if you
want to search for a particular match you use grep.

 localhost]# rpm -qa | grep alsa
  alsa-lib-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsaplayer-0.99.76-3.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsa-plugins-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsa-tools-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsa-firmware-1.0.8-1.rhfc3.ccrma
  clalsadrv-1.0.1-1.rhfc3.ccrma
  kernel-module-alsa-2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsa-driver-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsa-lib-devel-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsa-utils-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsa-oss-1.0.9-0.1.rc1.rhfc3.ccrma
  alsaplayer-devel-0.99.76-3.rhfc3.ccrma

That's what I have installed (FC3 PlanetCCRMA) that matches 'alsa', but
alsa-lib is the main one.

-- 
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP