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Unable to locate package openal-soft

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I'm trying to install openal-soft on Ubuntu Focal, but without luck.

This is the package I would like to install:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal/openal-soft

What I tried:

sudo apt update

sudo add-apt-repository universe

sudo apt install openal-soft

Am I missing something?

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answered 2 Years ago hamostic · Accepted Answer

You are trying to install binary package using name of its source package. They are different things. Source package has openal-soft name, during its compilation the following binary packages are produced:

libopenal-data – Software implementation of the OpenAL audio API (data files)

libopenal-dev – Software implementation of the OpenAL audio API (development files)

libopenal1 – Software implementation of the OpenAL audio API (shared library)

makehrtf – HRTF Processing and Composition Utility

openal-info – Informational utility for the OpenAL audio API

So reproducible way to install binary packages of OpenAL is the following:

sudo apt-add-repository universe

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libopenal-dev makehrtf openal-info

and then you can start developing software using this library.