Proper PulseAudio installation for KUbuntu 10.4

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Friday 25 June 2010, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:18 +0200, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 June 2010, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 20:45 +0100, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > > > You'll find it mostly works, but KDE apps will all use ALSA
> > > > routing to talk to pulseaudio, or will not produce any audio
> > > > at all. This problem is fixed in Maverick, but is unlikely
> > > > to be fixed in Lucid.
> > > > 
> > > > Basically, pulseaudio under Kubuntu 10.04 is not supported,
> > > > and does not work properly.
> > > 
> > > I thought Lucid was LTS?? Why wouldn't it be "fixed"?
> > > <sighs> Ric
> > 
> > Why would they fix something they don't support?
> 
> Forgive me for being dense, but the comment made which I was
> replying to was that it would "be fixed in Maverick", which I
> assume is the next release?? Ergo, would it not be fixed for the
> LTS release which is Lucid?

It's not supported in Lucid, so it's unlikely to be fixed there, 
especially since it is an LTS release. Attempting to fix it would 
introduce more instability.
It is, apparently, supported in Maverick, so I'd expect it to be 
fixed there.

> One thing is for sure, you cannot remove all of the pulseaudio
> packages without major breakage to the system, so that leads me
> to believe that there is a measure of support for pulse within
> the Kubuntu scheme of things, especially if you cannot remove it.

I can remove everything but two libraries that kmix depends on, and 
they don't seem to interfere with anything...

> It would suit me just fine to remove it completely and rely on
> alsa totally. But, as I just mentioned, that apparently is not
> the case. Anyone else want some of this? I suggest it be totally
> fixed or totally removed. Let's hear it from the choir. :) Ric

There shouldn't be a problem with removing the sound daemon, and 
that's the active part. Remove that, and your applications will be 
forced to use alsa or whatever. If you can't remove it, I'd like to 
know the package that depends on PA in such a way that it can't be 
removed...

  --Reinhold