How to Install and Uninstall libopenal1 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "libopenal1" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libopenal1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libopenal1" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libopenal1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                libopenal1
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libopenal1 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libopenal1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libs
Installed-Size: 496
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Games Team
Architecture: amd64
Source: openal-soft
Version: 1:1.16.0-3
Depends: libopenal-data (= 1:1.16.0-3), libc6 (>= 2.16)
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Recommends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1)
Suggests: libportaudio2 (>= 19+svn20101113)
Filename: pool/universe/o/openal-soft/libopenal1_1.16.0-3_amd64.deb
Size: 164340
MD5sum: d19e0fbe94eb54a62193594658111fd1
SHA1: 2b4c8a4c50d51e3463d4fd37372c01cef36cc110
SHA256: bf6750ba1dcece0de928c06054ee4da37bd065c668595dafd398257b4aa39a02
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
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: edubuntu-desktop-gnome, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntukylin-desktop