How To Install gnome-alsamixer on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-alsamixer on Debian 9. gnome-alsamixer is ALSA sound mixer for GNOME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-alsamixer on Debian 9.

What is gnome-alsamixer

gnome-alsamixer is:

A “volume control” application. You can use it to adjust the volume of different sound sources of your sound card.

It has a nice graphical user interface and a lot of features:

  • access to all of your computers sound cards and audio sources
  • possibility to give them custom names
  • only display the mixer controls you need
  • access to all the extra features some sound cards offer, like 3d enhancement, microphone gain boost…
  • and more

This application uses the ALSA sound API, you cannot use it if you use the (older) OSS drivers for your sound card(s). In return, it gives you access to all the functionality ALSA provides with the “alsamixer” program, found in the “alsa-utils” package.

There are three methods to install gnome-alsamixer on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gnome-alsamixer Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-alsamixer

Install gnome-alsamixer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gnome-alsamixer

Install gnome-alsamixer 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 gnome-alsamixer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnome-alsamixer

How To Uninstall gnome-alsamixer on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gnome-alsamixer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-alsamixer

Uninstall gnome-alsamixer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnome-alsamixer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-alsamixer

Remove gnome-alsamixer Configurations and Data

To remove gnome-alsamixer configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-alsamixer

Remove gnome-alsamixer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-alsamixer

Dependencies

gnome-alsamixer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-alsamixer package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.