How To Install liboss4-salsa2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboss4-salsa2 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liboss4-salsa2
liboss4-salsa2 is:
Liboss4-salsa is a library providing an ALSA interface on top of OSS.
Package: liboss4-salsa2 Architecture: amd64 Version: 4.2-build2010-5ubuntu5 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: oss4 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian OSS4 Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 196 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Filename: pool/universe/o/oss4/liboss4-salsa2_4.2-build2010-5ubuntu5_amd64.deb Size: 40948 MD5sum: dbcebdbe3ff3361cc04e59bbea578ee6 SHA1: 1b527bacf7aabd05f4dd2662b703a06e47c81524 SHA256: 7dccf5f26bf0804a50e4c0eef4b714efb0055d14bd9acd20106127d383222f48 Description-en: OSS to Alsa compatibility library Liboss4-salsa is a library providing an ALSA interface on top of OSS.
There are three methods to install liboss4-salsa2 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liboss4-salsa2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liboss4-salsa2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboss4-salsa2
Install liboss4-salsa2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboss4-salsa2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboss4-salsa2
Install liboss4-salsa2 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install liboss4-salsa2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboss4-salsa2
How To Uninstall liboss4-salsa2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liboss4-salsa2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboss4-salsa2
Uninstall liboss4-salsa2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboss4-salsa2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboss4-salsa2
Remove liboss4-salsa2 Configurations and Data
To remove liboss4-salsa2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboss4-salsa2
Remove liboss4-salsa2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboss4-salsa2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboss4-salsa2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboss4-salsa2 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
