ubuntu when Ubuntu Software Center is dead

[Matt Price]

not  sure which version of ubuntu you're running, but the switch from
straight alsa to pulseaudio a couple of years ago made direct access
to /dev/dsp pretty difficult.  depending on what exactly you're trying
to do, you might want to try

killall pulseaudio

and see if you get /dev/dsp back.  a lot of other stuff is likely to
break, though...

matt


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 12/20/2012 09:22 PM, Scott Elcomb wrote:
>>
>> If you prefer a GUI app there's also synaptic.
>>
>> (If it's not installed already, you can install it using Matt's
>> instructions - ie: sudo apt-get install synaptic)
>>
>> Launch with: gksudo synaptic
>>
>
> No, I do not prefer GUI.
>
> In part, I solved the problem.
>
> I run:
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> from terminal
>
> After that Ubuntu Software Center started to work,
>
> What a sheet is with these /dev/dsp is another story.
>
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