Bye-bye-Pulseaudio.txt/BarkingFish

How to remove pulseaudio from Kubuntu 12.04

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The following steps should be undertaken:

1:  Open Konsole (Alt+F2, type Konsole, hit enter)
2:  In Konsole, type  killall pulseaudio  , then hit enter.
3:  CD to your home directory /home/(username)
4:  rm *.pulse (removes pulseaudio's cookies)
5:  rmdir -f .pulse/  (removes the pulseaudio directory)
6:  apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
7:  apt-get install alsa-utils

When you have completed this procedure, type reboot to restart your machine.

You will most likely have to reconfigure Kmix as a result of this procedure.

BF