Ubuntu – How to cleanly remove PulseAudio in Ubuntu 14.04

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I am having sound issues in Ubuntu 14, mostly underruns causing skips and ugly noises and I want to remove pulse audio in an attempt to debug.

But when I do this breaks system settings in ubuntu. Fixing this by installing 'ubuntu-desktop' or 'unity' result in pulse being reinstalled.

I have blacklisted a few drivers I'm not using with not positive or negative effect. I have also tried removing pulse and removing the ~/.pulse folder before reinstalling.

Any help appreciated.

Best Answer

You can easily remove pulseaudio with apt-get:

apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio

or with apt:

apt purge pulseaudio
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