How To Install pulseaudio-equalizer on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-equalizer on Debian 12.
What is pulseaudio-equalizer
pulseaudio-equalizer 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.
This package provides an equalizer sink and an interface to configure the equalizer, qpaeq.
The module is called module-equalizer-sink.
There are three methods to install pulseaudio-equalizer on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pulseaudio-equalizer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio-equalizer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pulseaudio-equalizer
Install pulseaudio-equalizer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio-equalizer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pulseaudio-equalizer
Install pulseaudio-equalizer 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 pulseaudio-equalizer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pulseaudio-equalizer
How To Uninstall pulseaudio-equalizer on Debian 12
To uninstall only the pulseaudio-equalizer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio-equalizer
Uninstall pulseaudio-equalizer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pulseaudio-equalizer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pulseaudio-equalizer
Remove pulseaudio-equalizer Configurations and Data
To remove pulseaudio-equalizer configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pulseaudio-equalizer
Remove pulseaudio-equalizer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pulseaudio-equalizer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pulseaudio-equalizer
Dependencies
pulseaudio-equalizer have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libdbus-1-3
- libfftw3-single3
- libpulse0
- pulseaudio
- python3
- python3-pyqt5
- python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5
- python3-dbus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-equalizer package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
