How to Install and Uninstall cava Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 25,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "cava" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install cava on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                cava
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "cava" package

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


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

Package: cava
Source: cava-alsa
Version: 0.7.4-1
Installed-Size: 167
Maintainer: Lasse Flygenring-Harrsen
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libc6 (>= 2.29), libfftw3-double3 (>= 3.3.5), libiniparser1 (>= 4.0), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: pulseaudio
Description: Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa
Description-md5: d680fda4f52bfa9b760383c0b7a1f44b
Homepage: https://github.com/karlstav/cava
Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: sound
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cava-alsa/cava_0.7.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 80348
MD5sum: b03ab794708355ac33b539fdb698c90b
SHA256: 0ae5693b33c7795abc4fee22b26ef189859aeaeb2f44ed844f20e4c73965da8d