How To Install pulseaudio-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-utils on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is pulseaudio-utils
pulseaudio-utils 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.
These tools provide command line access to various features of the PulseAudio sound server. Included tools are:
paplay - Playback a WAV file via a PulseAudio sink. pacat - Cat raw audio data to a PulseAudio sink. parec - Cat raw audio data from a PulseAudio source. pacmd - Connect to PulseAudio’s built-in command line control interface. pactl - Send a control command to a PulseAudio server. padsp - /dev/dsp wrapper to transparently support OSS applications. pax11publish - Store/retrieve PulseAudio default server/sink/source settings in the X11 root window.
There are three methods to install pulseaudio-utils on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pulseaudio-utils 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-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pulseaudio-utils
Install pulseaudio-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pulseaudio-utils
Install pulseaudio-utils 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 pulseaudio-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pulseaudio-utils
How To Uninstall pulseaudio-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the pulseaudio-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio-utils
Uninstall pulseaudio-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pulseaudio-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pulseaudio-utils
Remove pulseaudio-utils Configurations and Data
To remove pulseaudio-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pulseaudio-utils
Remove pulseaudio-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pulseaudio-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pulseaudio-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-utils package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
