How To Install gsound-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsound-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gsound-tools
gsound-tools is:
GSound is a small library for playing system sounds. It’s designed to be used via GObject Introspection, and is a thin wrapper around the libcanberra C library.
This package contains tools for use with GSound.
There are three methods to install gsound-tools
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 gsound-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gsound-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gsound-tools
Install gsound-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gsound-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gsound-tools
Install gsound-tools 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 gsound-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gsound-tools
How To Uninstall gsound-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gsound-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gsound-tools
Uninstall gsound-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gsound-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gsound-tools
Remove gsound-tools Configurations and Data
To remove gsound-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gsound-tools
Remove gsound-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gsound-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gsound-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsound-tools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.