How To Install bluez-alsa-utils on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-alsa-utils
on Debian 12.
What is bluez-alsa-utils
bluez-alsa-utils is:
Bluetooth Audio ALSA Backend allow bluetooth audio without PulseAudio.
This project is a rebirth of a direct integration between Bluez and ALSA. Since Bluez >= 5, the build-in integration has been removed in favor of 3rd party audio applications. From now on, Bluez acts as a middleware between an audio application, which implements Bluetooth audio profile, and a Bluetooth audio device.
This package contains files that is tool using bluez-alsa plugin.
There are three methods to install bluez-alsa-utils
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bluez-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 bluez-alsa-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bluez-alsa-utils
Install bluez-alsa-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bluez-alsa-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bluez-alsa-utils
Install bluez-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bluez-alsa-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bluez-alsa-utils
How To Uninstall bluez-alsa-utils on Debian 12
To uninstall only the bluez-alsa-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bluez-alsa-utils
Uninstall bluez-alsa-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bluez-alsa-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluez-alsa-utils
Remove bluez-alsa-utils Configurations and Data
To remove bluez-alsa-utils
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bluez-alsa-utils
Remove bluez-alsa-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bluez-alsa-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluez-alsa-utils
Dependencies
bluez-alsa-utils have the following dependencies:
- libasound2
- libbluetooth3
- libc6
- libdbus-1-3
- libglib2.0-0
- libldacbt-abr2
- libldacbt-enc2
- libsbc1
- libasound2-plugin-bluez
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-alsa-utils
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.