How To Install Pactl In Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian?

How To Install Pactl In Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian?

pactl

Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server

Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team



Section: sound

Install pactl

  • Debian apt-get install pulseaudio-utils Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install pulseaudio-utils Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add pulseaudio-utils Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S libpulse Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install pulseaudio-utils Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install pulseaudio-utils Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install pulseaudio-utils Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install pulseaudio-utils Click to copy

pulseaudio-utils

Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture. These tools provide command line access to various features of the PulseAudio sound server. Included tools are: paplay - Playback a WAV file via a PulseAudio sink. pacat - Cat raw audio data to a PulseAudio sink. parec - Cat raw audio data from a PulseAudio source. pacmd - Connect to PulseAudio's built-in command line control interface. pactl - Send a control command to a PulseAudio server. padsp - /dev/dsp wrapper to transparently support OSS applications. pax11publish - Store/retrieve PulseAudio default server/sink/source settings in the X11 root window.

pulseaudio-utils-dbg

PulseAudio command line tools (debugging symbols)

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture. This package contains detached debugging symbols for the command line tools.

libpulse

A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)
To install the latest version of pactl in your favorite operating system just copy the pactl installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of pactl 2026 package in your OS.