How To Install portaudio19-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install portaudio19-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. portaudio19-doc is Portable audio I/O - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install portaudio19-doc on Debian 10.

What is portaudio19-doc

portaudio19-doc 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 documentation.

There are three methods to install portaudio19-doc on Debian 10. 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-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install portaudio19-doc

Install portaudio19-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install portaudio19-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install portaudio19-doc

Install portaudio19-doc 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 portaudio19-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install portaudio19-doc

How To Uninstall portaudio19-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the portaudio19-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove portaudio19-doc

Uninstall portaudio19-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall portaudio19-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove portaudio19-doc

Remove portaudio19-doc Configurations and Data

To remove portaudio19-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge portaudio19-doc

Remove portaudio19-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove portaudio19-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge portaudio19-doc

Dependencies

portaudio19-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install portaudio19-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.