How To Install gnome-alsamixer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-alsamixer on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-alsamixer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
