Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.0-1306-wip

Chapter 43. Audio Utilities

pavucontrol-5.0

Introduction to pavucontrol

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.

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Package Information

pavucontrol Dependencies

Required

Gtkmm-3.24.8, JSON-GLib-1.8.0, libcanberra-0.30, libsigc++-2.12.1, and PulseAudio-17.0

Installation of pavucontrol

Install pavucontrol by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/pavucontrol-5.0 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: pavucontrol
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/pavucontrol and /usr/share/doc/pavucontrol-5.0

Short Descriptions

pavucontrol

is a GUI configuration tool for sound settings using pulsaudio