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I am an Archlinux user and I ve had problems with alsamixer which didn't play sound in google-chrome. So I 1st tried to uninstall it using:

sudo pacman -Rns alsa-plugins alsa-tools alsa-oss

After "removing" the alsa (so I ve thought) I could still call it using command alsamixer which is bizarre. So i tried ti completely remove it by changing my pwd into the /bin and using command: 

sudo rm alsa*

which did seem to remove the alsa and the command alsamixer wasnt reckognized any more (file .asoundrc in my home folder was also removed by me): 

[ziga@ziga-cq56 ~]$ alsamixer
bash: alsamixer: command not found

Then I tried to reinstall the same packets that I deleted and now I get:

[ziga@ziga-cq56 ~]$ alsamixer
bash: alsamixer: command not found

It is weird that Amarok music player still plays music. Can anyone help me recover alsa?

71GA
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You probably had alsa-utils and alsa-lib still installed. Remove them and then reinstall with 'alsa-plugins alsa-tools alsa-oss alsa-utils'. Alsa-lib should install automatically as a dependency of the others.

Jeight
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  • Thank you. This worked like a charm. I didn't know about alsa-lib and that it was installed along other packages :) This allso fixed my previous audio errors – 71GA Oct 11 '13 at 05:05