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

Last updated: April 25,2024

1. Install "pulseaudio-utils" package

Please follow the guidance below to install pulseaudio-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall pulseaudio-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                pulseaudio-utils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pulseaudio-utils package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: pulseaudio-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Source: pulseaudio
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 385
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libpulse0 (= 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1), libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.7.2), libxcb1, libpulsedsp
Suggests: avahi-daemon, pulseaudio
Breaks: pulseaudio (<< 1:14.2-3~)
Replaces: pulseaudio (<< 1:14.2-3~)
Filename: pool/main/p/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-utils_15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
Size: 69944
MD5sum: 179808f8d4bd74b3cba7cb8da9425313
SHA1: 9abc99cc964bb9e5d928f4a403ec4d7f2bc2bb08
SHA256: f43fb4d16e90835229fe792d7c05184af9661d59e4041cd391eca7cd55f6ac3d
SHA512: b0734759ead20168bf6295f1812b872986f0391d900259a6973d7d1e8ede6508751a90f16593d988c5ced981024d0f5c34899e5348fee9613500acfe7e15ceda
Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org
Description-en: Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and
WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
.
These tools provide command line access to various features of the
PulseAudio sound server. Included tools are:
.
paplay - Playback a WAV file via a PulseAudio sink.
pacat - Cat raw audio data to a PulseAudio sink.
parec - Cat raw audio data from a PulseAudio source.
pacmd - Connect to PulseAudio's built-in command line control interface.
pactl - Send a control command to a PulseAudio server.
padsp - /dev/dsp wrapper to transparently support OSS applications.
pax11publish - Store/retrieve PulseAudio default server/sink/source
settings in the X11 root window.
Description-md5: d8d6ff926bb9214bc0212fd3318ba0e6
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

Package: pulseaudio-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Source: pulseaudio
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 385
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.16), libpulse0 (= 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2), libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.7.2), libxcb1, libpulsedsp
Suggests: avahi-daemon, pulseaudio
Breaks: pulseaudio (<< 1:14.2-3~)
Replaces: pulseaudio (<< 1:14.2-3~)
Filename: pool/main/p/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-utils_15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 70310
MD5sum: 518c6e80d7efe59bdc54d3f94bbe526a
SHA1: 5f5a1a0e80291b796695f0710a4e7147404445f3
SHA256: d739d77a1df594fb65cb8f1d019e8010d90172e7250b4b985dd056ad4692cd16
SHA512: 08ad75532aac85bba77d952e4d82893d4dab23a7ebedeba2cfe87ec3865c39f0cce1bc2eabd9635296289eb6e282ba163b9e11881141587cdf98142ef38f5910
Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org
Description-en: Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and
WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
.
These tools provide command line access to various features of the
PulseAudio sound server. Included tools are:
.
paplay - Playback a WAV file via a PulseAudio sink.
pacat - Cat raw audio data to a PulseAudio sink.
parec - Cat raw audio data from a PulseAudio source.
pacmd - Connect to PulseAudio's built-in command line control interface.
pactl - Send a control command to a PulseAudio server.
padsp - /dev/dsp wrapper to transparently support OSS applications.
pax11publish - Store/retrieve PulseAudio default server/sink/source
settings in the X11 root window.
Description-md5: d8d6ff926bb9214bc0212fd3318ba0e6
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