Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is alsa-utils
alsa-utils is:
Included tools:
- alsactl: advanced controls for ALSA sound drivers
- alsaloop: create loopbacks between PCM capture and playback devices
- alsamixer: curses mixer
- alsaucm: alsa use case manager
- amixer: command line mixer
- amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
- aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
- aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
- aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
- iecset: set or dump IEC958 status bits
- speaker-test: speaker test tone generator
ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
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Package: alsa-utils
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 2444
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 1.2.2-1ubuntu2
Provides: audio-mixer
Depends: kmod (>= 17-1~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), libasound2 (>= 1.2.1), libatopology2 (>= 1.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.29), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: dialog
Conffiles:
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils a49e760eb262e3439bb3f50391a9ed22
Description-en: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
Included tools:
- alsactl: advanced controls for ALSA sound drivers
- alsaloop: create loopbacks between PCM capture and playback devices
- alsamixer: curses mixer
- alsaucm: alsa use case manager
- amixer: command line mixer
- amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
- aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
- aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
- aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
- iecset: set or dump IEC958 status bits
- speaker-test: speaker test tone generator
ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
Homepage: https://www.alsa-project.org/
Original-Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers [email protected]
Package: alsa-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2.2-1ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2448
Provides: audio-mixer
Depends: kmod (>= 17-1~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), libasound2 (>= 1.2.1), libatopology2 (>= 1.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.29), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: dialog
Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.2.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 1022316
MD5sum: 5c125409aee8e545c2a23234a84c5f13
SHA1: 3c63adbb91fc921a67b6543500f888fe2a0baab0
SHA256: 46915931a289ec926ee62e6a8f3553847379dff467d5f54414ad4e9525b7e65c
Homepage: https://www.alsa-project.org/
Description-en: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
Included tools:
- alsactl: advanced controls for ALSA sound drivers
- alsaloop: create loopbacks between PCM capture and playback devices
- alsamixer: curses mixer
- alsaucm: alsa use case manager
- amixer: command line mixer
- amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
- aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
- aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
- aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
- iecset: set or dump IEC958 status bits
- speaker-test: speaker test tone generator
ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
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There are three methods to install alsa-utils 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 alsa-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 alsa-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alsa-utils
Install alsa-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alsa-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alsa-utils
Install alsa-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 alsa-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alsa-utils
How To Uninstall alsa-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the alsa-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alsa-utils
Uninstall alsa-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alsa-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alsa-utils
Remove alsa-utils Configurations and Data
To remove alsa-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alsa-utils
Remove alsa-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alsa-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alsa-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
