How To Install pulseaudio on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio on Kali Linux. pulseaudio is PulseAudio sound server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio on Kali Linux.

What is pulseaudio

pulseaudio is:

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 are some of PulseAudio’s features:

  • High quality software mixing of multiple audio streams with support for more than one sink/source. May be used to combine multiple sound cards into one (with sample rate adjustment).

  • Wide range of supported client libraries. ESD, ALSA, oss, libao and GStreamer client applications are supported as-is. Native PulseAudio plug-ins are also available for xmms and mplayer.

  • Good low latency behaviour and very accurate latency measurement for playback and recording. Ability to fully synchronize multiple playback streams.

  • Network transparency, allowing an application to play back or record audio on a different machine than the one it is running on.

  • Extensible plug-in architecture with plug-ins for jackd, multicast-rtp lirc and avahi, just to name a few.

This package contains the daemon and basic module set.

There are three methods to install pulseaudio on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pulseaudio Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pulseaudio

Install pulseaudio Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pulseaudio

Install pulseaudio Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install pulseaudio using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pulseaudio

How To Uninstall pulseaudio on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pulseaudio package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

Uninstall pulseaudio And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pulseaudio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pulseaudio

Remove pulseaudio Configurations and Data

To remove pulseaudio configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pulseaudio

Remove pulseaudio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pulseaudio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pulseaudio

Dependencies

pulseaudio have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pulseaudio package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.