How To Install portaudio19-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install portaudio19-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is portaudio19-dev
portaudio19-dev is:
PortAudio is a portable audio I/O library designed for cross-platform support of audio. It uses a callback mechanism to request audio processing. Audio can be generated in various formats, including 32 bit floating point, and will be converted to the native format internally.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install portaudio19-dev
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 portaudio19-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install portaudio19-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install portaudio19-dev
Install portaudio19-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install portaudio19-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install portaudio19-dev
Install portaudio19-dev 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 portaudio19-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install portaudio19-dev
How To Uninstall portaudio19-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the portaudio19-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove portaudio19-dev
Uninstall portaudio19-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall portaudio19-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove portaudio19-dev
Remove portaudio19-dev Configurations and Data
To remove portaudio19-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge portaudio19-dev
Remove portaudio19-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove portaudio19-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge portaudio19-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install portaudio19-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.