How To Install alure-utils on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install alure-utils on Ubuntu 18.04. alure-utils is AL Utilities REtooled (utilities)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alure-utils on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is alure-utils

alure-utils is:

ALURE is a utility library to help manage common tasks with OpenAL applications. This includes device enumeration and initialization, file loading, and streaming.

The purpose of this library is to provide pre-made functionality that would otherwise be repetitive or difficult to (re)code for various projects and platforms, such as loading a sound file into an OpenAL buffer and streaming an audio file through a buffer queue. Support for different formats is consistant across platforms, so no special checks are needed when loading files, and all formats are handled through the same API.

Currently ALURE includes a basic .wav and .aif file reader, and can leverage external libraries such as libSndFile (for extended wave formats and several others), VorbisFile (for Ogg Vorbis), and FLAC (for FLAC and Ogg FLAC), and others. External libraries can also be dynamically loaded at run-time, or individually disabled outright at compile time.

This package installs the various ALURE utility programs.

There are three methods to install alure-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 alure-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 alure-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install alure-utils

Install alure-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alure-utils

Install alure-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 alure-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alure-utils

How To Uninstall alure-utils on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the alure-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove alure-utils

Uninstall alure-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall alure-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alure-utils

Remove alure-utils Configurations and Data

To remove alure-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge alure-utils

Remove alure-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alure-utils

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alure-utils package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.