How To Install liboss4-salsa-asound2 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboss4-salsa-asound2 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liboss4-salsa-asound2
liboss4-salsa-asound2 is:
Liboss4-salsa is a library providing an ALSA interface on top of OSS.
This package contains a symbolic link that makes applications already compiled with ALSA use liboss4-salsa.
There are three methods to install liboss4-salsa-asound2 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 liboss4-salsa-asound2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liboss4-salsa-asound2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboss4-salsa-asound2
Install liboss4-salsa-asound2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboss4-salsa-asound2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboss4-salsa-asound2
Install liboss4-salsa-asound2 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 liboss4-salsa-asound2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboss4-salsa-asound2
How To Uninstall liboss4-salsa-asound2 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liboss4-salsa-asound2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboss4-salsa-asound2
Uninstall liboss4-salsa-asound2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboss4-salsa-asound2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboss4-salsa-asound2
Remove liboss4-salsa-asound2 Configurations and Data
To remove liboss4-salsa-asound2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboss4-salsa-asound2
Remove liboss4-salsa-asound2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboss4-salsa-asound2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboss4-salsa-asound2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboss4-salsa-asound2 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
