How To Install pavucontrol on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol on Ubuntu.

What is `pavucontrol`

pavucontrol is:

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK+ based volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately. It also allows you to redirect a playback stream to another output device without interrupting playback.

There are three methods to install pavucontrol 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 pavucontrol Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pavucontrol

Install pavucontrol Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pavucontrol

Install pavucontrol 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 pavucontrol using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pavucontrol

How To Uninstall pavucontrol on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove pavucontrol

Uninstall pavucontrol And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pavucontrol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pavucontrol

Remove pavucontrol Configurations and Data

To remove pavucontrol configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pavucontrol

Remove pavucontrol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pavucontrol

Dependencies

pavucontrol have the following dependencies:

References

pavucontrol website

Summary

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