Pulseaudio and my sanity

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Clay Weber wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:12:17 am Brian Norman Wootton wrote:
>   
>> I can't speak for others but Pulseaudio came as original equipment with
>> my installation of 9.04.
>>
>>     
> Not entirely true here. There is a pulseaudio library installed by default 
> (libpulse0) :
>
> 	"Client libraries used by applications that access a PulseAudio sound server 	
> 	via PulseAudio's native interface"
>
> But the actual pulseaudio *sound server* (Package name pulseaudio, and its 
> dependencies) is not. Something  installed afterward is pulling it in:
>
> apt-cache rdepends pulseaudio
> pulseaudio                                       
> Reverse Depends:                                 
>   pulseaudio-esound-compat                       
>   pulseaudio-dbg                                 
>   openjdk-6-jre                                  
>   libpulsecore9                                  
>   libpulsecore9                                  
>   libpulse0
>   ubuntustudio-desktop
>   ubuntu-netbook-remix
>   mpd
>   ubuntu-desktop
>   pulseaudio-esound-compat
>   pulseaudio-dbg
>   openjdk-6-jre
>   ltsp-client
>   libpulsecore9
>   libpulsecore9
>   libpulse0
>
> The only thing that sticks out is openjdk-jre (a java package), or perhaps a 
> package that depends on something in the above list such as the icedtea6-
> plugin
>
>   
Pulseaudio shows up in my sound under multimedia, but according to 
synaptic all that's installed is the lib.

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