How To Install apulse on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apulse on Debian 11.
What is apulse
apulse is:
The program provides an alternative partial implementation of the PulseAudio API. It consists of a loader script and a number of shared libraries with the same names as from original PulseAudio, so applications could dynamically load them and think they are talking to PulseAudio. Internally, no separate sound mixing daemon is used. Instead, apulse relies on ALSA’s dmix, dsnoop, and plug plugins to handle multiple sound sources and capture streams running at the same time. dmix plugin muxes multiple playback streams; dsnoop plugin allow multiple applications to capture from a single microphone; and plug plugin transparently converts audio between various sample formats, sample rates and channel numbers.
There are three methods to install apulse on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install apulse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apulse using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apulse
Install apulse Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apulse using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apulse
Install apulse 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 apulse using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apulse
How To Uninstall apulse on Debian 11
To uninstall only the apulse package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apulse
Uninstall apulse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apulse and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apulse
Remove apulse Configurations and Data
To remove apulse configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apulse
Remove apulse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apulse configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apulse
Dependencies
apulse have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apulse package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.