How To Install pulseaudio-equalizer on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-equalizer on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pulseaudio-equalizer
pulseaudio-equalizer 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 provides an equalizer sink and an interface to configure the equalizer, qpaeq.
The module is called module-equalizer-sink.
Package: pulseaudio-equalizer Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8 Priority: optional Section: universe/sound Source: pulseaudio Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 214 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libpulse0 (= 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8), pulseaudio (= 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8), python3, python3-pyqt5, python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5, python3-dbus Filename: pool/universe/p/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-equalizer_13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8_amd64.deb Size: 33944 MD5sum: 3716e4b04ce729c2411453f90f213e6b SHA1: 417b40fec60bfa7f87b12010b433843ed40da6b1 SHA256: 3d4cff711d2ce4bdc26b6dd1829f68506b1ce7b833a758d1ea6a6e7112c3420f SHA512: 6e50773ae515d3ccd2e762b30191c485bf5f7b8a86b94d875606712650e836b6eacea1d16334e5eebc492ceba7c334a156b85a7d7fac0721fa5d38f4894e089e Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org Description-en: Equalizer sink module for PulseAudio sound server 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 provides an equalizer sink and an interface to configure the equalizer, qpaeq.
The module is called module-equalizer-sink.
Package: pulseaudio-equalizer Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 Priority: optional Section: universe/sound Source: pulseaudio Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 213 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libpulse0 (= 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3), pulseaudio (= 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3), python3, python3-pyqt5, python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5, python3-dbus Filename: pool/universe/p/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-equalizer_13.99.1-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 33952 MD5sum: b3d27567c9d22b3d5a79114c157f54ff SHA1: 6c81208b899bf9dbf72742d3b92418743912c1a5 SHA256: 57925b09a32e5a412e26026de8dafe8befa665b76f1976429e24daab4a0903d5 Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org Description-en: Equalizer sink module for PulseAudio sound server 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 provides an equalizer sink and an interface to configure the equalizer, qpaeq.
The module is called module-equalizer-sink.
There are three methods to install pulseaudio-equalizer 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 pulseaudio-equalizer 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-equalizer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pulseaudio-equalizer
Install pulseaudio-equalizer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio-equalizer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pulseaudio-equalizer
Install pulseaudio-equalizer 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-equalizer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pulseaudio-equalizer
How To Uninstall pulseaudio-equalizer on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pulseaudio-equalizer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio-equalizer
Uninstall pulseaudio-equalizer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pulseaudio-equalizer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pulseaudio-equalizer
Remove pulseaudio-equalizer Configurations and Data
To remove pulseaudio-equalizer configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pulseaudio-equalizer
Remove pulseaudio-equalizer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pulseaudio-equalizer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pulseaudio-equalizer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio-equalizer package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
