How To Install roaraudio-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install roaraudio-dbg on Debian 9.
What is roaraudio-dbg
roaraudio-dbg is:
RoarAudio is a server for audio mixing. Its main purpose is to mix audio from different clients before sending it to its outputs (for example a soundcard). It is completely network transparent (UNIX sockets, TCP/IP, DECnet) and supports many common codecs like Ogg Vorbis, Speex or FLAC.
This packet consists of the following libraries: libroar: The RoarAudio main library. It contains code for talking to roard, virtual IO functions useful not only for audio applications, memory management functions like buffers, lists, stacks.
libroardsp: Digital Signal Processing library. It contains code to work with PCM signals including simple filters, converters and code to work with some (realtime) codecs.
libroareio: This is the RoarAudio Extended IO library. It contains code for talking to extended IO. Currently it contains code to talk to soundcards without roard. This is not meant to be used by other applications directly.
libroarlight: Light Control support library. It contains code to support the usage of the light control subsystem.
libroarmidi: MIDI subsystem support library. It contains code to support the usage of the MIDI subsystem.
This package contains the debugging symbols for RoarAudio.
There are three methods to install roaraudio-dbg 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 roaraudio-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install roaraudio-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install roaraudio-dbg
Install roaraudio-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install roaraudio-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install roaraudio-dbg
Install roaraudio-dbg 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 roaraudio-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install roaraudio-dbg
How To Uninstall roaraudio-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the roaraudio-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove roaraudio-dbg
Uninstall roaraudio-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall roaraudio-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove roaraudio-dbg
Remove roaraudio-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove roaraudio-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge roaraudio-dbg
Remove roaraudio-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove roaraudio-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge roaraudio-dbg
Dependencies
roaraudio-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install roaraudio-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
