Wow that was fast thank you.
I guess wildcards don't work with it so you need to use the exact name.
Code:
xbmc@xbmc-HTPC:/$ aptitude show alsa*
E: Unable to locate package alsa*
xbmc@xbmc-HTPC:/$ aptitude show alsa-utils
Package: alsa-utils
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.0.22-0ubuntu5
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 2,056k
Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.22), libc6 (>= 2.8), libncursesw5 (>=
5.6+20071006-3), whiptail | dialog, module-init-tools, lsb-base (>=
3.0-9), linux-sound-base (>= 1.0.15-1), udev, upstart-job
Recommends: alsa-base (>= 1.0.15-1), pciutils
Conflicts: alsa-base (< 1.0.9b-3), udev (< 0.060)
Breaks: udev (< 136-1)
Provides: audio-mixer
Description: ALSA utilities
This package contains utilities for configuring and using ALSA, including:
o amixer: command line mixer
o alsamixer: curses mixer
o amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
o aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
o aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
o aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/
Still thanks again it should work for me.
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