#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r13.0-491

### Chapter 43. Audio Utilities

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# pavucontrol-6.2

## 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

- Download (HTTP): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-6.2.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: d515163651b8272e500dfcac32c525dd

- Download size: 196 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 5.6 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

### pavucontrol Dependencies

#### Required

Gtkmm-4.22.0, JSON-GLib-1.10.8, libsigc++-3.6.0, and PulseAudio-17.0

### Optional

libcanberra-0.30 and Lynx-2.9.2

## Installation of pavucontrol

Install pavucontrol by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -D lynx=disabled .. &&
    ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install &&
    mv /usr/share/doc/pavucontrol /usr/share/doc/pavucontrol-6.2

## Command Explanations

`-D lynx=disabled`: This switch disables generating the README file in text format. Remove this switch if you want the README file in text format and have Lynx-2.9.2 installed.

## Contents

Installed Program: pavucontrol
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/pavucontrol and /usr/share/doc/pavucontrol-6.2

### Short Descriptions

pavucontrol | is a GUI configuration tool for sound settings using pulsaudio

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