How To Install alsa-utils on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-utils on Ubuntu 20.04. alsa-utils is Utilities for configuring and using ALSA Utilities for configuring and using ALSA Utilities for configuring and using ALSA

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `alsa-utils`

alsa-utils is:

Included tools:

alsactl: advanced controls for ALSA sound drivers
alsaloop: create loopbacks between PCM capture and playback devices
alsamixer: curses mixer
alsaucm: alsa use case manager
amixer: command line mixer
amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
iecset: set or dump IEC958 status bits
speaker-test: speaker test tone generator

ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: alsa-utils Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 2444 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: foreign Version: 1.2.2-1ubuntu2 Provides: audio-mixer Depends: kmod (>= 17-1~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), libasound2 (>= 1.2.1), libatopology2 (>= 1.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.29), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6) Suggests: dialog Conffiles: /etc/init.d/alsa-utils a49e760eb262e3439bb3f50391a9ed22 Description-en: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA Included tools:

alsactl: advanced controls for ALSA sound drivers
alsaloop: create loopbacks between PCM capture and playback devices
alsamixer: curses mixer
alsaucm: alsa use case manager
amixer: command line mixer
amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
iecset: set or dump IEC958 status bits
speaker-test: speaker test tone generator

ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Homepage: https://www.alsa-project.org/ Original-Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers [email protected]

Package: alsa-utils Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.2.2-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: sound Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2448 Provides: audio-mixer Depends: kmod (>= 17-1~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), libasound2 (>= 1.2.1), libatopology2 (>= 1.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.29), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6) Suggests: dialog Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.2.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 1022316 MD5sum: 5c125409aee8e545c2a23234a84c5f13 SHA1: 3c63adbb91fc921a67b6543500f888fe2a0baab0 SHA256: 46915931a289ec926ee62e6a8f3553847379dff467d5f54414ad4e9525b7e65c Homepage: https://www.alsa-project.org/ Description-en: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA Included tools:

alsactl: advanced controls for ALSA sound drivers
alsaloop: create loopbacks between PCM capture and playback devices
alsamixer: curses mixer
alsaucm: alsa use case manager
amixer: command line mixer
amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
iecset: set or dump IEC958 status bits
speaker-test: speaker test tone generator

There are three methods to install alsa-utils on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install alsa-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install alsa-utils

Install alsa-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alsa-utils

Install alsa-utils 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 alsa-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alsa-utils

How To Uninstall alsa-utils on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the alsa-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove alsa-utils

Uninstall alsa-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall alsa-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alsa-utils

Remove alsa-utils Configurations and Data

To remove alsa-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge alsa-utils

Remove alsa-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alsa-utils

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.