RemovePulseAudio

Fedora and pulse audio removal

The steps I followed were: -1- Rename (add "-orig") to cripple: /etc/pulse

                                      /etc/pulse/default.pa
                                      /root/pulse-cookie
                                      /home/<user name>/.pulse-cookie

-2- Run rpm -qa | grep "pulse" and rpm -qa | grep "pa" to find the stuff loaded for pulse audio. Remove it via yum ("yum remove xxx"), one item below per run:

                      pulseaudio
                      alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
                      pavucontrol
                      pulseaudio-utils
                      gstreamer-plugins-pulse
                      pulseaudio-core-libs
                      akode-pulseaudio

This leaves: libflashsupport

              pulseaudio-libs
              akode-pulseaudio

To remove these would take too many other dependencies.

IIRC, there were subsequent notes on several sites that removing only alsa-plugins-pulseaudio was enough. I'm not certain that "I recall correctly" and even if I do, it might not be enough for Fedora 9. But I'd probably try that first to see if it (alone) works. Besides, since you'll eventually need to do it, there's no harm.