How To Install pulseaudio-esound-compat on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-esound-compat
on Debian 9.
What is pulseaudio-esound-compat
pulseaudio-esound-compat is:
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
This package contains the ESD compatibility components used by some older versions of complete desktop environments, e.g., GNOME, and many useful applications. It enables a PulseAudio sound server to fully replace ESD.
There are three methods to install pulseaudio-esound-compat
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 pulseaudio-esound-compat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio-esound-compat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pulseaudio-esound-compat
Install pulseaudio-esound-compat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio-esound-compat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pulseaudio-esound-compat
Install pulseaudio-esound-compat 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 pulseaudio-esound-compat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pulseaudio-esound-compat
How To Uninstall pulseaudio-esound-compat on Debian 9
To uninstall only the pulseaudio-esound-compat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio-esound-compat
Uninstall pulseaudio-esound-compat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pulseaudio-esound-compat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pulseaudio-esound-compat
Remove pulseaudio-esound-compat Configurations and Data
To remove pulseaudio-esound-compat
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pulseaudio-esound-compat
Remove pulseaudio-esound-compat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pulseaudio-esound-compat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pulseaudio-esound-compat
Dependencies
pulseaudio-esound-compat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-esound-compat
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.