How To Install openal-info on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openal-info
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openal-info
openal-info is:
This utility is useful in diagnosing OpenAL related issues and for displaying helpful informationa about what is supported on your system with OpenAL.
This package installs the OpenAL Soft openal-info utility.
There are three methods to install openal-info
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 openal-info Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openal-info
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openal-info
Install openal-info Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openal-info
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openal-info
Install openal-info 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 openal-info
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openal-info
How To Uninstall openal-info on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openal-info
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openal-info
Uninstall openal-info And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openal-info
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openal-info
Remove openal-info Configurations and Data
To remove openal-info
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openal-info
Remove openal-info configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openal-info
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openal-info
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openal-info
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.