How To Install squeezelite-pa 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 squeezelite-pa on Ubuntu.
What is squeezelite-pa
squeezelite-pa is:
Squeezelite is a small headless Squeezebox emulator. It is aimed at supporting high quality audio including USB DAC based output at multiple sample rates.
It supports decoding PCM (WAV/AIFF), FLAC, MP3, Ogg, AAC, WMA and ALAC audio formats. It can also resample audio, which allows squeezelite to upsample the output to the highest sample rate supported by the output device.
This package is built with the resampling, ffmpeg and visualisation export options. It uses PortAudio for audio output.
There are three methods to install squeezelite-pa 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 squeezelite-pa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install squeezelite-pa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install squeezelite-pa
Install squeezelite-pa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install squeezelite-pa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install squeezelite-pa
Install squeezelite-pa 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 squeezelite-pa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install squeezelite-pa
How To Uninstall squeezelite-pa on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the squeezelite-pa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove squeezelite-pa
Uninstall squeezelite-pa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall squeezelite-pa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove squeezelite-pa
Remove squeezelite-pa Configurations and Data
To remove squeezelite-pa configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge squeezelite-pa
Remove squeezelite-pa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove squeezelite-pa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge squeezelite-pa
Dependencies
squeezelite-pa have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite-pa package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.