How To Install mudita24 on Debian 10

Learn how to install mudita24 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mudita24 is ALSA GUI control tool for Envy24 (ice1712) soundcards

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mudita24 on Debian 10.

What is mudita24

mudita24 is:

Mudita24 is a modification of the Linux alsa-tools’ envy24control: an application controlling the digital mixer, channel gains and other hardware settings for sound cards based on the VIA Ice1712 chipset aka Envy24. Unlike most ALSA mixer controls, this application displays a level meter for each input and output channel and maintains peak level indicators. This is based on Envy24’s hardware peak metering feature.

Mudita24 provides alternate name to avoid confusion with “envy24control 0.6.0” until changes in this version propagate upstream. As balance to the “Envy”, this project needed some Mudita “In Buddhism the third of the four divine abidings is mudita, taking joy in the good fortune of another. This virtue is considered the antidote to envy and the opposite of schadenfreude.”

This utility is preferable to alsamixer for those with ice1712-based cards: M-Audio Delta 1010, Delta 1010LT, Delta DiO 2496, Delta 66, Delta 44, Delta 410 and Audiophile 2496. Terratec EWS 88MT, EWS 88D, EWX 24/96, DMX 6Fire, Phase 88. Hoontech Soundtrack DSP 24, Soundtrack DSP 24 Value, Soundtrack DSP 24 Media 7.1. Event Electronics EZ8. Digigram VX442. Lionstracs, Mediastaton. Terrasoniq TS 88. Roland/Edirol DA-2496.

There are three methods to install mudita24 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 mudita24 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mudita24 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mudita24

Install mudita24 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mudita24 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mudita24

Install mudita24 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 mudita24 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mudita24

How To Uninstall mudita24 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the mudita24 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mudita24

Uninstall mudita24 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mudita24 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mudita24

Remove mudita24 Configurations and Data

To remove mudita24 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mudita24

Remove mudita24 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mudita24 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mudita24

Dependencies

mudita24 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mudita24 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.