How To Install paman on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paman on Debian 9.
What is paman
paman is:
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.
PulseAudio Manager (paman) is a simple GTK frontend for the PulseAudio sound server. With paman you may browse most of PulseAudio’s internals. There is support for changing the volume of sinks and sink inputs. You’re also able to play samples from the sample cache.
There are three methods to install paman 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 paman Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install paman using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install paman
Install paman Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install paman using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install paman
Install paman 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 paman using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install paman
How To Uninstall paman on Debian 9
To uninstall only the paman package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove paman
Uninstall paman And Its Dependencies
To uninstall paman and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove paman
Remove paman Configurations and Data
To remove paman configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge paman
Remove paman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove paman configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge paman
Dependencies
paman have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paman package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
