How To Install oss4-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install oss4-gtk
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is oss4-gtk
oss4-gtk is:
Open Sound System (OSS) is an attempt in unifying the digital audio architecture for UNIX.
This package contains a GTK2-based mixer control program.
Package: oss4-gtk Architecture: amd64 Version: 4.2-build2010-5ubuntu5 Priority: optional Section: universe/sound 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: 100 Depends: oss4-base, libc6 (>= 2.7), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0) Filename: pool/universe/o/oss4/oss4-gtk_4.2-build2010-5ubuntu5_amd64.deb Size: 25436 MD5sum: eb8cd7a8495952ab4f0754b904f7e630 SHA1: c16032a9453dbf8f4dc8aaa33f82a329512bebfb SHA256: bae4c8e661b3ecbe9129dd43428c450507ee6ea4c1550a7ae52623585f1bdd1e Description-en: Open Sound System - simple GTK2-based mixer control Open Sound System (OSS) is an attempt in unifying the digital audio architecture for UNIX.
This package contains a GTK2-based mixer control program.
There are three methods to install oss4-gtk
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 oss4-gtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install oss4-gtk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install oss4-gtk
Install oss4-gtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install oss4-gtk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install oss4-gtk
Install oss4-gtk 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 oss4-gtk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install oss4-gtk
How To Uninstall oss4-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the oss4-gtk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove oss4-gtk
Uninstall oss4-gtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall oss4-gtk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove oss4-gtk
Remove oss4-gtk Configurations and Data
To remove oss4-gtk
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge oss4-gtk
Remove oss4-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove oss4-gtk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oss4-gtk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install oss4-gtk
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.