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

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

parec

Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server

Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team



Section: sound

Install parec

  • 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.

libpulse

A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)
Installation of latest parec command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian. You can copy the command for your OS from above and paste it into your terminal. Once you run the command it will download the 2026 latest package from the repository and install it in your computer/server.