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How to resolve Pulseaudio not attaching a mixer due to missing libraries?

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I've been trying to install pulseaudio, and I can't seem to find a straight answer about what to do about ALSA. Does PulseAudio run on top of ALSA? Should I get rid of ALSA first? ALSA is a sound server, right? So is PulseAudio... As you can tell I'm somewhat confused. Anyway right now I seem to ha…

Error Output

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}

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Here's a straight answer: PulseAudio is a sound server; ALSA is a kernel sound subsystem. They do different things -- ALSA provides chipset drivers for your soundcard or onboard sound chip; PulseAudio routes sound between programs, sound chips, and …

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