How to Install and Uninstall alsa-utils Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 30,2024

1. Install "alsa-utils" package

This is a short guide on how to install alsa-utils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: alsa-utils
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 2192
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.1.0-0ubuntu5
Provides: audio-mixer
Depends: lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7), kmod (>= 17-1~), whiptail | dialog, libasound2 (>= 1.1.0), libc6 (>= 2.15), libfftw3-double3, libncursesw5 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo5 (>= 6)
Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.1.0-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb
Size: 956362
MD5sum: de11bd9861a5545f95d9c3f4185e76ad
SHA1: c197f22905648a32831ad15395c182c778597355
SHA256: 3dce0ad4cf5b4d88423999eb5d9e157a21ed3024389da86f0cca73d091c7f3f4
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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, kubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-master, lubuntu-core, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntu-touch-core, ubuntu-touch, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop