How to Install and Uninstall libopenal1 Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "libopenal1" package

This guide let you learn how to install libopenal1 on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "libopenal1" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libopenal1 on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libopenal1 package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libopenal1
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:1.19.1-2
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libs
Source: openal-soft
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Games Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 967
Depends: libopenal-data (= 1:1.19.1-2), libc6 (>= 2.27), libsndio7.0 (>= 1.1.0)
Recommends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1)
Suggests: libportaudio2 (>= 19+svn20101113)
Filename: pool/universe/o/openal-soft/libopenal1_1.19.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 493112
MD5sum: 46e695b2a6912d3a4a584eaf76af8c59
SHA1: 512b40bf2c51f2ebd94698b9f5ceb4f280ad5e2f
SHA256: 3ab74f308c5f8d0faf928067fb36381ce1dedbad0d32190111d55cb8a43efa36
SHA512: 61c4dbb0c53fcc6f0b072f1d53982ff5b6e4860336b545ec4d232b3be9f16e96c1304952b17d7fbe4208f56c9fe6feedb98c36a3d35efca03ee7bb47eaefb97d
Homepage: http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
Description-en: Software implementation of the OpenAL audio API (shared library)
OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open,
vendor-neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized
audio. OpenAL's primary audience are application developers and desktop
users that rely on portable standards like OpenGL, for games and other
multimedia applications.
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This library is meant as a compatible update/replacement to the OpenAL Sample
Implementation (the SI). The SI has been unmaintained for quite a while, and
would require a lot of work to clean up. This is a fork the old Windows version
to attempt an accelerated ALSA version of an OpenAL implementation.
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OpenAL Soft supports mono, stereo, 4-channel, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 output, as
opposed to the SI's 4-channel max (though it did have some provisions for 6
channel, this was not 5.1, and was seemingly a "late" addition). OpenAL Soft
does not support the Vorbis and MP3 extensions, however those were considered
deprecated even in the SI. It does, though, support some of the newer
extensions like AL_EXT_FLOAT32 and AL_EXT_MCFORMATS for multi-channel and
floating-point formats, as well as ALC_EXT_EFX for environmental audio effects,
and others.
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This package installs the OpenAL Soft shared library.
Description-md5: 6c583bdfdc4c7b37bbd96c94be753ea6
Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop-raspi