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Quick installation of pulseaudio-utils:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: pulseaudio-utils
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Package Details | |
| Package: | pulseaudio-utils |
| Version: | 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.4 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Core Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.pulseaudio.org |
| Description: | Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture. . These tools provide command line access to various features of the PulseAudio sound server. Included tools are: . paplay - Playback a WAV file via a PulseAudio sink. pacat - Cat raw audio data to a PulseAudio sink. parec - Cat raw audio data from a PulseAudio source. pacmd - Connect to PulseAudio's built-in command line control interface. pactl - Send a control command to a PulseAudio server. padsp - /dev/dsp wrapper to transparently support OSS applications. pax11publish - Store/retrieve PulseAudio default server/sink/source settings in the X11 root window. Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | sound |
How to install pulseaudio-utils on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If pulseaudio-utils is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L pulseaudio-utils' will give followin error.
Installing pulseaudio-utils:
After system update use the following command to install pulseaudio-utils:
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove pulseaudio-utils from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the pulseaudio-utils from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the pulseaudio-utils following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio-utils
Following command is used to remove the pulseaudio-utils package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove pulseaudio-utils
This will remove pulseaudio-utils and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing pulseaudio-utils with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio-utils
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove pulseaudio-utils
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with pulseaudio-utils package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
