How To Install libopenal1 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenal1 on Debian 11.
What is libopenal1
libopenal1 is:
OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized audio. OpenAL’s primary audience are application developers and desktop users that rely on portable standards like OpenGL, for games and other multimedia applications.
This library is meant as a compatible update/replacement to the OpenAL Sample Implementation (the SI). The SI has been unmaintained for quite a while, and would require a lot of work to clean up. This is a fork the old Windows version to attempt an accelerated ALSA version of an OpenAL implementation.
OpenAL Soft supports mono, stereo, 4-channel, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 output, as opposed to the SI’s 4-channel max (though it did have some provisions for 6 channel, this was not 5.1, and was seemingly a “late” addition). OpenAL Soft does not support the Vorbis and MP3 extensions, however those were considered deprecated even in the SI. It does, though, support some of the newer extensions like AL_EXT_FLOAT32 and AL_EXT_MCFORMATS for multi-channel and floating-point formats, as well as ALC_EXT_EFX for environmental audio effects, and others.
This package installs the OpenAL Soft shared library.
There are three methods to install libopenal1 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libopenal1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenal1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopenal1
Install libopenal1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenal1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopenal1
Install libopenal1 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 libopenal1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopenal1
How To Uninstall libopenal1 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libopenal1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopenal1
Uninstall libopenal1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopenal1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenal1
Remove libopenal1 Configurations and Data
To remove libopenal1 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopenal1
Remove libopenal1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopenal1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenal1
Dependencies
libopenal1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenal1 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
