How To Install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
xrdp-pulseaudio-installer is:
xrdp offers a graphical login to a remote client using RDP (the Remote Desktop Protocol). xrdp can connect to a locally created X.org session with the xorgxrdp drivers, to a VNC X11 server, and forward to another RDP server.
This package contains a utility to build the PulseAudio modules needed to use the RDP sound channel from the X session, and the code of the modules the script uses for the build.
There are three methods to install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
Install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
Install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
How To Uninstall xrdp-pulseaudio-installer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
Uninstall xrdp-pulseaudio-installer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
Remove xrdp-pulseaudio-installer Configurations and Data
To remove xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
Remove xrdp-pulseaudio-installer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrdp-pulseaudio-installer
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.