How To Install aumix on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install aumix on Ubuntu 22.04. aumix is Simple text-based mixer control program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aumix on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is aumix

aumix is:

aumix is a small, easy-to-use program to control the mixer of your sound card. It runs in text mode using the ncurses library, or from the command line (non-interactively). It can read default settings from a file, and it can also automatically save and restore the mixer settings at shutdown and boot.

A wrapper script xaumix is provided that finds and invokes xterm or a replacement. This is primarily for creating the best sized terminal window. If you want a true graphical interface, install aumix-gtk instead. That has the same functionality as this one in addition to offering a nice X GUI.

There are three methods to install aumix on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install aumix Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install aumix

Install aumix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install aumix using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install aumix

Install aumix 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 aumix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aumix

How To Uninstall aumix on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the aumix package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove aumix

Uninstall aumix And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aumix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aumix

Remove aumix Configurations and Data

To remove aumix configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aumix

Remove aumix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aumix

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aumix package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.