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Excalibur

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Registered: 2019-03-07

Posts: 13  

To permanently block installation of Pulseaudio.

When installing multimedia software pulseaudio can be pulled in as a dependency or as a recommends. This can be blocked by using APT pinning. Place a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d containing the following: -

                              Package: pulseaudio
                              Pin: release n=beowulf
                              Pin-Priority: -10

Any software you do not want installed can be blocked in a similar way.

I use a Perl script to generate an avoid-pkgName file.

zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

Posts: 313  

Re: To permanently block installation of Pulseaudio.

When installing multimedia software pulseaudio can be pulled in as a dependency or as a recommends. This can be blocked by using APT pinning. Place a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d containing the following: -

                              Package: pulseaudio
                              Pin: release n=beowulf
                              Pin-Priority: -10

Any software you do not want installed can be blocked in a similar way.

I use a Perl script to generate an avoid-pkgName file.

Sounds good!

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beate

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Registered: 2019-03-25

Posts: 23  

Re: To permanently block installation of Pulseaudio.

... works until the next upgrade to chimaera.

And then murphy will predict that You forget to update the release entry before doing the update.

szutt

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Registered: 2019-02-03

Posts: 32  

Re: To permanently block installation of Pulseaudio.

This sounds like a good news : PipeWire 0.3.31 https://www.reddit.com/r/MXLinux/commen … chpad_ppa/

Supports on MX Linux and ubuntu 18.04 also Or All Debian based distros

thierrybo

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Registered: 2017-11-11

Posts: 67  

Re: To permanently block installation of Pulseaudio.

Package: pulseaudio
Pin: release o=Devuan
Pin-Priority: -10

Yes should be better to deal with version upgrades.