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! Stable Release | ! Stable Release | ||
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! Development Release | ! Development Release | ||
! Description | ! Description | ||
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See [[ChangeLogs]] to find out what has changed since the previous release. | See [[ChangeLogs]] to find out what has changed since the previous release. | ||
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| + | ==Detailed package descriptions== | ||
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| + | ===alsa-driver=== | ||
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| + | alsa-driver contains the ALSA components that run in kernel space (e.g. all the modules). It also contains a few user-space components, including the alsasound startup script and a set of ALSA headers. | ||
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| + | This package is now obsolete, as kernel.org is now taking updates to the modules directly from the ALSA GIT server. | ||
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| + | ===alsa-lib=== | ||
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| + | alsa-lib contains the user space library that developers compile ALSA applications against. | ||
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| + | ===alsa-utils=== | ||
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| + | alsa-utils contains various generic ALSA command line tools, such as amixer, aplay, alsaconf, etc. | ||
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| + | ===alsa-tools=== | ||
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| + | alsa-tools contains various more obscure tools and loaders. | ||
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| + | ===alsa-firmware=== | ||
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| + | alsa-firmware contains binary drivers for various third-party products. | ||
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| + | ===alsa-plugins=== | ||
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| + | alsa-plugins contains plugins for various ALSA needs (e.g. Jack). | ||
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| + | ===alsa-oss=== | ||
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| + | alsa-oss contains the OSS compatibilty layer. | ||
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| + | ===pyalsa=== | ||
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| + | pyalsa contains the Python bindings for ALSA | ||
==<tt>.bz2</tt> extension handling== | ==<tt>.bz2</tt> extension handling== | ||
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'''Primary Site''' | '''Primary Site''' | ||
*[ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org:/pub ftp.alsa-project.org:/pub] | *[ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org:/pub ftp.alsa-project.org:/pub] | ||
| + | *[http://mirrors.zerg.biz/alsa mirrors.zerg.biz/alsa] | ||
| + | '''Asia Mirrors''' | ||
| + | *[ftp://mirrors.go-parts.com/alsa/ mirrors.go-parts.com/alsa/] | ||
'''US Mirrors''' | '''US Mirrors''' | ||
*[ftp://ftp.silug.org:/pub/alsa ftp.silug.org:/pub/alsa] | *[ftp://ftp.silug.org:/pub/alsa ftp.silug.org:/pub/alsa] | ||
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==FTP via HTTP (web) access== | ==FTP via HTTP (web) access== | ||
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| + | '''Asia Sites''' | ||
| + | *[http://mirrors.go-parts.com/alsa/ http://mirrors.go-parts.com/alsa/] | ||
'''Europe Sites''' | '''Europe Sites''' | ||
Latest revision as of 22:29, 31 July 2013
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[edit] Latest Software Source Releases
| Package | Stable Release
(2012-01-25) |
Development Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driver (alsa-driver) | 1.0.25 | none | Kernel drivers |
| Firmware alsa-firmware) | 1.0.28 | none | Firmware for cards that require it |
| Library (alsa-lib) | 1.0.28 | none | Userspace library |
| Plugins (alsa-plugins) | 1.0.28 | none | Additional library plugins Eg.jack, pulse, maemo ... |
| Utilities (alsa-utils) | 1.0.28 | none | Utilities aplay,arecord,amixer etc |
| Tools (alsa-tools) | 1.0.28 | none | Tools |
| PyALSA (pyalsa) | 1.0.26 | none | Python bindings for ALSA lib |
| OSS compat lib (alsa-oss) | 1.0.28 | none | OSS compatibility library |
See ChangeLogs to find out what has changed since the previous release.
[edit] Detailed package descriptions
[edit] alsa-driver
alsa-driver contains the ALSA components that run in kernel space (e.g. all the modules). It also contains a few user-space components, including the alsasound startup script and a set of ALSA headers.
This package is now obsolete, as kernel.org is now taking updates to the modules directly from the ALSA GIT server.
[edit] alsa-lib
alsa-lib contains the user space library that developers compile ALSA applications against.
[edit] alsa-utils
alsa-utils contains various generic ALSA command line tools, such as amixer, aplay, alsaconf, etc.
[edit] alsa-tools
alsa-tools contains various more obscure tools and loaders.
[edit] alsa-firmware
alsa-firmware contains binary drivers for various third-party products.
[edit] alsa-plugins
alsa-plugins contains plugins for various ALSA needs (e.g. Jack).
[edit] alsa-oss
alsa-oss contains the OSS compatibilty layer.
[edit] pyalsa
pyalsa contains the Python bindings for ALSA
[edit] .bz2 extension handling
The .bz2 extension belongs to the bzip2 compression utility which replaces gzip. You may unpack the .tar.bz2 files directly using one of the following commands:
using the newer version of tar:
tar -xjf <file>
or, using the older version of tar:
tar -xIf <file>
or, with all versions of tar:
bunzip2 -c <file> | tar -xf -
[edit] FTP Access
Primary Site
Asia Mirrors
US Mirrors
Europe Mirrors
- ftp.task.gda.pl:/pub/linux/misc/alsa
- gd.tuwien.ac.at:/opsys/linux/alsa
- ftp.iasi.roedu.net:/pub/mirrors/ftp.alsa-project.org
[edit] FTP via HTTP (web) access
Asia Sites
Europe Sites
- http://dl.ambiweb.de/mirrors/ftp.alsa-project.org
- http://alsa.mirror.fr
- http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/alsa
- http://alsa.cybermirror.org
- http://jumper.nu/alsa (Sweden)
[edit] Developers: GIT access
[edit] Online Snapshot From ALSA Server
Tarballs are generated from the latest code in ALSA GIT repositories immediately. Get very fresh ALSA code now.
[edit] Daily Snapshot Tarballs (from Takashi Iwai)
The tarballs of the latest GIT version with ready-for-build configure script are available at:
[edit] Tracker System
[edit] Rsync
| URL | rsync://rsync.alsa-project.org/ftp |
| Access | read-only |
| Description | read-only access to the whole FTP tree |
