How To Install liboss4-salsa-asound2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboss4-salsa-asound2 on Ubuntu 20.04.
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.
Package: liboss4-salsa-asound2 Architecture: amd64 Version: 4.2-build2010-5ubuntu5 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: oss4 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian OSS4 Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 22 Provides: libasound2 Depends: liboss4-salsa2 Conflicts: libasound2 Filename: pool/universe/o/oss4/liboss4-salsa-asound2_4.2-build2010-5ubuntu5_amd64.deb Size: 3744 MD5sum: 49b1f35d180a44e910393787aae01ba1 SHA1: 486c2518009da2639c39f344a107f721d920d642 SHA256: ae8e30ef8f4393cbc88d9f4f0b38cb604052245c8c3a1cbb0ef72d2d2fa71e26 Description-en: OSS to Alsa compatibility library - binary compatibility symlink 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 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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.