How To Install pnmixer on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pnmixer on Debian 12.
What is pnmixer
pnmixer is:
PNMixer is a simple mixer application designed to run in your system tray. It integrates nicely into desktop environments that don’t have a panel that supports applets and therefore can’t run a mixer applet. In particular it’s been used quite a lot with fbpanel and tint2, but should run fine in any system tray.
PNMixer is designed to work on systems that use ALSA for sound management. Any other sound driver like OSS or FFADO, or sound server like PulseAudio or Jack, are currently not supported (patches welcome).
There are three methods to install pnmixer on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pnmixer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pnmixer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pnmixer
Install pnmixer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pnmixer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pnmixer
Install pnmixer 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 pnmixer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pnmixer
How To Uninstall pnmixer on Debian 12
To uninstall only the pnmixer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pnmixer
Uninstall pnmixer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pnmixer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pnmixer
Remove pnmixer Configurations and Data
To remove pnmixer configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pnmixer
Remove pnmixer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pnmixer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pnmixer
Dependencies
pnmixer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pnmixer package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.