How To Install libasound2-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libasound2-doc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libasound2-doc
libasound2-doc is:
This package contains the HTML documentation for the ALSA library, which describes the development API for user-space applications that want to use ALSA.
ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
Package: libasound2-doc Architecture: all Version: 1.2.2-2.1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: alsa-lib Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 15781 Depends: libjs-jquery Suggests: libasound2-dev Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-lib/libasound2-doc_1.2.2-2.1_all.deb Size: 2157468 MD5sum: 96f8eff0275ba3f44358a381689e95ae SHA1: 83f971e95d9541b3117e6712b5ecf07fd6eefcbf SHA256: 0adc24867a6d99d8268678d2ed25cf81722994ef27431e0c281caea197a5fd00 Homepage: https://www.alsa-project.org/ Description-en: documentation for user-space ALSA application programming This package contains the HTML documentation for the ALSA library, which describes the development API for user-space applications that want to use ALSA.
ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
There are three methods to install libasound2-doc
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 libasound2-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libasound2-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libasound2-doc
Install libasound2-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libasound2-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libasound2-doc
Install libasound2-doc 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 libasound2-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libasound2-doc
How To Uninstall libasound2-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libasound2-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libasound2-doc
Uninstall libasound2-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libasound2-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libasound2-doc
Remove libasound2-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libasound2-doc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libasound2-doc
Remove libasound2-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libasound2-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libasound2-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libasound2-doc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.