How to Install and Uninstall alsa-utils Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 29,2024

1. Install "alsa-utils" package

Please follow the steps below to install alsa-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall alsa-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: alsa-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2.4-1ubuntu4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2444
Provides: audio-mixer
Depends: kmod (>= 17-1~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), libasound2 (>= 1.2.1), libatopology2 (>= 1.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: dialog
Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.2.4-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb
Size: 1151756
MD5sum: 96c09e2fff46195a154223597e80b306
SHA1: 682eb88447a4bf5bed62c8356c2d3b597b192f9d
SHA256: 9a0ab0fafbd88a81787e72d486a614a8301dd07325f99219d63ea212815a7ab4
SHA512: b55865f09f7a7564f0a1a878ecc13090b91613cc0bc6a6bc4546a80539c47fe60360ea7ec636f190462806b12c09b85500b53f1d704f6873943031b17347d333
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
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ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
Description-md5: a4e555adf5e969eded25828df3763172
Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop-raspi, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop-raspi