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MarcH: Fix broken link to internal Bug Tracking page

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==Latest Software Source Releases==
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! Package
! Stable Release
! Development Release
! Description
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| Drivers
| (see kernel.org)
| (see kernel.org)
| Kernel drivers
|-
| [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/firmware/ Firmware ({{ALSA download package|module=firmware}})]
| {{ALSA download file|module=firmware|release=stable|short=true}}
| {{ALSA download file|module=firmware|release=development|short=true}}
| Firmware for cards that require it
|-
| [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/lib/ Library ({{ALSA download package|module=lib}})]
| {{ALSA download file|module=lib|release=stable|short=true}}
| {{ALSA download file|module=lib|release=development|short=true}}
| Userspace library
|-
| [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/plugins/ Plugins ({{ALSA download package|module=plugins}})]
| {{ALSA download file|module=plugins|release=stable|short=true}}
| {{ALSA download file|module=plugins|release=development|short=true}}
| Additional library plugins Eg.jack, pulse, maemo ...
|-
| [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/utils/ Utilities ({{ALSA download package|module=utils}})]
| {{ALSA download file|module=utils|release=stable|short=true}}
| {{ALSA download file|module=utils|release=development|short=true}}
| Utilities aplay,arecord,amixer etc
|-
| [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/tools/ Tools ({{ALSA download package|module=tools}})]
| {{ALSA download file|module=tools|release=stable|short=true}}
| {{ALSA download file|module=tools|release=development|short=true}}
| Tools
|-
| [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/pyalsa/ PyALSA ({{ALSA download package|module=python}})]
| {{ALSA download file|module=python|release=stable|short=true}}
| {{ALSA download file|module=python|release=development|short=true}}
| Python bindings for ALSA lib
|-
| [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/oss-lib/ OSS compat lib ({{ALSA download package|module=oss}})]
| {{ALSA download file|module=oss|release=stable|short=true}}
| {{ALSA download file|module=oss|release=development|short=true}}
| OSS compatibility library
|-
| [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/tinycompress/ Tiny compress library ({{ALSA download package|module=tinycompress}})]
| {{ALSA download file|module=tinycompress|release=stable|short=true}}
| {{ALSA download file|module=tinycompress|release=development|short=true}}
| Tiny compress library
|-
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See [[ChangeLogs]] to find out what has changed since the previous release.

* GPG signing key fingerprint: '''F04D F507 37AC 1A88 4C4B 3D71 8380 596D A6E5 9C91'''
* GPG public key block: [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/gpg-release-key-v1.txt]

==Detailed package descriptions==

===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'''. The kernel development continues in the standard linux kernel tree [https://www.kernel.org].<br>
The old [https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/driver/ drivers ({{ALSA download package|module=driver}})] are still available.

===alsa-lib===

alsa-lib contains the user space library that developers compile ALSA applications against.

===alsa-utils===

alsa-utils contains various generic ALSA command line tools, such as amixer, aplay, alsaconf, etc.

===alsa-tools===

alsa-tools contains various more obscure tools and loaders.

===alsa-firmware===

alsa-firmware contains binary drivers for various third-party products.

===alsa-plugins===

alsa-plugins contains plugins for various ALSA needs (e.g. Jack).

===alsa-oss===

alsa-oss contains the OSS compatibilty layer.

===pyalsa===

pyalsa contains the Python bindings for ALSA

==<tt>.bz2</tt> extension handling==

The <tt>.bz2</tt> extension belongs to the bzip2 compression utility which replaces gzip. You may unpack the <tt>.tar.bz2</tt> files directly using one of the following commands:
''using the newer version of tar:''
<nowiki>tar -xjf </nowiki>''<file>''

'''or''', ''using the older version of tar:''
<nowiki>tar -xIf </nowiki>''<file>''

'''or''', ''with all versions of tar:''
<nowiki>bunzip2 -c </nowiki>''<file>''<nowiki> | tar -xf -</nowiki>

==FTP Access==

'''Primary Site'''
*[ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org:/pub ftp.alsa-project.org:/pub] The site supports TLS via STARTTLS

==HTTP access==

'''Primary Site'''
*[https://www.alsa-project.org/files www.alsa-project.org/files]

'''Europe Sites'''
*[https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/ https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/]

==Developers: GIT access==

*[[GIT Server]]
*[http://git.alsa-project.org/ GIT Repository]

==Online Snapshot From ALSA Server==

Tarballs are generated from the latest code in ALSA GIT repositories immediately. Get very fresh ALSA code now.

*[http://www.alsa-project.org/snapshot/ Online snapshot]

==Daily Snapshot Tarballs (from Takashi Iwai)==

The tarballs of the latest GIT version with ready-for-build configure script are available at:
*[http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/alsa/ Daily Snapshot]

==Tracker System==

*[https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/wiki/Bug_Tracking Bugs]

==Rsync==

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|+ ''ALSA rsync access''
|URL
|rsync://rsync.alsa-project.org/ftp
|-
|Access
|read-only
|-
|Description
|read-only access to the whole FTP tree
|}

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