How to Install and Uninstall alsa-utils Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 29,2024

You can also install and uninstall the alsa-utils on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "alsa-utils" package

This tutorial shows how to install alsa-utils on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                alsa-utils
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "alsa-utils" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall alsa-utils on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                alsa-utils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the alsa-utils package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.8-1
Installed-Size: 2475
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: audio-mixer
Depends: kmod (>= 17-1~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), libasound2 (>= 1.2.6.1), libatopology2 (>= 1.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: dialog
Description: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
Description-md5: a4e555adf5e969eded25828df3763172
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.alsa-project.org/
Tag: admin::configuring, admin::hardware, admin::kernel, devel::lang:c,
devel::library, implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode,
role::devel-lib, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::configuring,
works-with::audio
Section: sound
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.2.8-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1097864
MD5sum: 73b9bf606fa2d677dd31c0ecbb792ee4
SHA256: fb24eb1a318228b974efbef726190dd90c6106a208814a3ee8f5d69b91ee0ba4