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djg1971

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Registered: 2008-09-11

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what happened to alsa packages?

# pacman -S  alsa-tools alsa-firmware alsa-plugins
alsa-tools package not found, searching for group...
error: 'alsa-tools': not found in sync db

# pacman -S alsa
alsa package not found, searching for group...
error: 'alsa': not found in sync db

zyghom

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From: Poland/Tanzania

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 429

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Re: what happened to alsa packages?

 sudo pacman -Ss alsa
extra/alsa-lib 1.0.17a-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsa-oss 1.0.15-1
    OSS compatibility library
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.17-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
extra/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1
    A heavily multi-threaded PCM player that tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit.
extra/gnome-alsamixer 0.9.6-2
    Gnome ALSA mixer
extra/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.7-3 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugins (gst-plugins-bad)
extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.20-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
extra/gtick 0.4.1-1
    GTick is a metronome application supporting different meters (1/1, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and more) and speeds
    ranging from 10 to 1000 bpm. It utilizes GTK+ and OSS (ALSA compatible).
extra/wmix 3.1-2
    Dockapp mixer for OSS or ALSA
community/alsa-plugins 1.0.17-1
    Extra alsa plugins
community/balsa 2.3.24-1
    An e-mail client for GNOME
community/bse-alsa 0.7.1-3
    The Bedevilled Sound Engine, BEAST's core library (ALSA version)
00:36:12 papio@baboon:~$

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djg1971

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 147

Re: what happened to alsa packages?

sorry to be dense, but i don't get it.  pacman -Ss shows some packages that are not installed on my machine.  pacman -S alsa or any variant thereof produces nothing.  With other packages, pacman -S pkgname works fine, even searches for the group of packages most of the time.  Why nothing in the case of alsa?  In particular, if not having some of the packages is my problem with sound, how do I get them?

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: what happened to alsa packages?

There is no alsa group.  You probably want to do "pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss"

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 838

Re: what happened to alsa packages?

djg: pacman -Ss is the command for searching the repositories over the internet. pacman -S is how you install package locally from the internet.

zyghom was showing you the results returned form a internet search of the repositories, you where supposed to read the results and figure out for yourself what you need.

need more info on pacman??? do what the rest of the world does, RTFM.

man pacman

Last edited by jacko (2008-09-12 15:24:24)

android

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From: San Diego

Registered: 2003-04-18

Posts: 140

Re: what happened to alsa packages?

djg1971,

Please don't be offended, I thought your question was polite and well formed.

On the arch workstation system from which I'm writing:

pacman -Q | grep alsa

returns only the three packages listed by Allen:

pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss

These (along with xmms) should be enough to have you playing audio.

As I'm sure you're aware, not all computer geeks are well versed in social graces.

But many here in the Arch Forums will make heroic efforts to help others solve their technical problems.

For that: Thank You Archers!

android

sm4tik

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From: Finland, Jyväskylä

Registered: 2006-11-05

Posts: 236

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Re: what happened to alsa packages?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA