>The solution: install the basic components or simply uninstall pavucontrol-qt.
>It will remove lubuntu-desktop but that's just a metafile. It won't remove your
>entire installation.
Wouldn't that leave all the remaining lubuntu packages marked as
automatically installed, and therefore slated for
With regards to lubuntu-desktop, we expect that metapackage to provide a
particular experience and that includes a user-friendly sound mixer. We
also expect it to include a terminal emulator. Xubuntu does things a
little bit different: both the sound mixer and the terminal emulator (as
a corollary;
If you look at the upstream codebase for pavucontrol-qt:
https://github.com/lxqt/pavucontrol-qt
you can see it's "A Pulseaudio mixer in Qt." So obviously it will require
Pulseaudio, as you can see in the build instructions.
** Changed in: pavucontrol-qt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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I'll add it's actually problematic that pavucontrol (not -qt) recommends
pulseaudio instead of depending on it. If you look at the upstream codebase:
https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/
it says "Obviously pavucontrol requires an installation of PulseAudio."
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