How To Install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio on Debian 9. liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio is audio streaming language – Pulseaudio plugin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio on Debian 9.

What is liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio

liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio is:

Liquidsoap is a powerful tool for building complex audio streaming systems, typically targeting internet radios (e.g. icecast streams).

It consists of a simple script language, in which you can create, combine and transform audio sources. Its design makes liquidsoap flexible and easily extensible.

This package provides support for pulseaudio audio input and output in Liquidsoap.

There are three methods to install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio

Install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio

Install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio

How To Uninstall liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio on Debian 9

To uninstall only the liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio

Uninstall liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio

Remove liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio Configurations and Data

To remove liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio

Remove liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio

Dependencies

liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.