How To Install randomsound on Debian 10

Learn how to install randomsound on Debian 10 with this tutorial. randomsound is ALSA sound card related entropy gathering daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install randomsound on Debian 10.

What is randomsound

randomsound is:

Using the low order bit of the ADC output of your sound card, randomsound gathers entropy, debiases it and offers it up to your kernel’s random pool.

There are three methods to install randomsound on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install randomsound Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install randomsound

Install randomsound Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install randomsound using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install randomsound

Install randomsound 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 randomsound using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install randomsound

How To Uninstall randomsound on Debian 10

To uninstall only the randomsound package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove randomsound

Uninstall randomsound And Its Dependencies

To uninstall randomsound and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove randomsound

Remove randomsound Configurations and Data

To remove randomsound configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge randomsound

Remove randomsound configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove randomsound configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge randomsound

Dependencies

randomsound have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install randomsound package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.