How To Install beep on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 393 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install beep on Ubuntu.
What is beep
beep is:
beep does what you’d expect: it beeps. But unlike printf “\a”, beep allows you to control pitch, duration, and repetitions. Its job is to live inside shell/perl scripts and allow more granularity than one has otherwise. It is controlled completely through command line options. It’s not supposed to be complex, and it isn’t - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever else it gets hacked into) much more informative.
There are three methods to install beep on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install beep Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install beep using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install beep
Install beep Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install beep using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install beep
Install beep Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install beep using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install beep
How To Uninstall beep on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the beep package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove beep
Uninstall beep And Its Dependencies
To uninstall beep and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove beep
Remove beep Configurations and Data
To remove beep configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge beep
Remove beep configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove beep configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge beep
Dependencies
beep have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install beep package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.