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esound not installed in tribe 4

Asked by Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín

In a fresh gutsy tribe 4 install, esound package is not installed, but when gedit shows a tooltip it tries to call /usr/bin/esd, like this:

snifer@snifer-laptop:~$ gedit
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found

Is esound going to be dropped or replaced by something else? Should I file a bug about esound not being installed or gedit or tooltips?

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Matteo Settenvini (tchernobog) said : 		#1

Probably the best course of action is to phase out esound in favor of pulseaudio.
Try to install the following packages via Synaptic:
 * libao-pulse
 * libgstreamer-plugins-pulse0.10-0
 * pulseaudio
 * pulseaudio-esound-compat
 * pulseaudio-module-gconf
 * pulseaudio-module-hal
 * pulseaudio-module-x11
 * pulseaudio-utils

Ah, by the way, Fedora is going the same way with its version 8, so I expect this is the Right Thing (tm).

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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) said : 		#2

I think I've also read somewhere else that esound is going to be replaced with pulseaudio. Thanks for your answer. Problem solved.