How To Install sound-icons 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 sound-icons on Ubuntu.
What is sound-icons
sound-icons is:
This package contains sound icons to be used for event signalization in speech enabled applications. They are especially useful when running Speech Dispatcher.
There are three methods to install sound-icons 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 sound-icons Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sound-icons using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sound-icons
Install sound-icons Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sound-icons using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sound-icons
Install sound-icons 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 sound-icons using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sound-icons
How To Uninstall sound-icons on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the sound-icons package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sound-icons
Uninstall sound-icons And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sound-icons and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sound-icons
Remove sound-icons Configurations and Data
To remove sound-icons configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sound-icons
Remove sound-icons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sound-icons configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sound-icons
Dependencies
sound-icons have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sound-icons package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.