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Latest Software Source Releases

Package	Stable Release	Development Release	Description
Drivers	(see kernel.org)	(see kernel.org)	Kernel drivers
Firmware (alsa-firmware)	1.2.4 (sig)	none	Firmware for cards that require it
Library (alsa-lib)	1.2.14 (sig)	none	Userspace library
Plugins (alsa-plugins)	1.2.12 (sig)	none	Additional library plugins Eg.jack, pulse, maemo ...
Utilities (alsa-utils)	1.2.14 (sig)	none	Utilities aplay,arecord,amixer etc
Tools (alsa-tools)	1.2.14 (sig)	none	Tools
PyALSA (pyalsa)	1.2.14 (sig)	none	Python bindings for ALSA lib
OSS compat lib (alsa-oss)	1.1.8 (sig)	none	OSS compatibility library
Tiny compress library (tinycompress)	1.2.13 (sig)	none	Tiny compress library

See ChangeLogs to find out what has changed since the previous release.

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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 [2].
The old drivers (alsa-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

.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 -

FTP Access

Primary Site

• ftp.alsa-project.org:/pub The site supports TLS via STARTTLS

HTTP access

Primary Site

• www.alsa-project.org/files

Europe Sites

• https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/

Developers: GIT access

• GIT Server
• 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.

• Online snapshot

Daily Snapshot Tarballs (from Takashi Iwai)

The tarballs of the latest GIT version with ready-for-build configure script are available at:

• Daily Snapshot

Tracker System

• Bugs

Rsync

ALSA rsync access

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