How To Install osspd on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install osspd on Debian 9.
What is osspd
osspd is:
OSS Proxy Daemon is a Linux userland OSS sound device (/dev/[a]dsp and /dev/mixer) implementation using CUSE. Currently it supports forwarding OSS sound streams to PulseAudio and ALSA.
Actually emulating the OSS devices makes for a more robust emulation compared to OSS wrappers using LD_PRELOAD, like aoss and padsp. It also works better when running foreign-architecture applications or using old libc versions for compatibility reasons.
There are three methods to install osspd on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install osspd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install osspd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install osspd
Install osspd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install osspd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install osspd
Install osspd 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 osspd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install osspd
How To Uninstall osspd on Debian 9
To uninstall only the osspd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove osspd
Uninstall osspd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall osspd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove osspd
Remove osspd Configurations and Data
To remove osspd configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge osspd
Remove osspd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove osspd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osspd
Dependencies
osspd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install osspd package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.