How to install System-wide PulseAudio equalizer in Ubuntu 9.10 (and 10.04)

By Ricky on February 8th, 2010

A system-wide PulseAudio equalizer was developed by Ubuntu Forums memeber, psyke83. The equalizer is now available in his PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu. In this article we will tell you who you can install it from the PPA in Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04.

To install psyke83's system-wide PulseAudio equalizer, follow the following steps:

Open the terminal from Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal.
Add the repository with the command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:psyke83/ppa

Update the software list with:

sudo apt-get update

Finally, install the equalizer with

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer

In case of problems, you can get support at this thread in Ubuntu Forum.

Thanks Andrew!

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phill

I followed the instructions above and I can’t get the equalizer to run.

Anonymous

ARe you getting any error, or it does not start at all?

phill

I decided to try ubuntu 10.04 and I was able to install and run the eq on that. I am not having any problems
with lucid so I’ll consider the problem solved.

jim

Thanks!
Lilu

Awesome thanks a lot
-KinG-

It’s great. Thanks.
David

Thanks so much
Dan

Ubuntu 10.04 – Works perfectly, Thanks!!
Deandake

WOW! Awesome EQ! Thanks psyke83
Tom2003star

NICE!!!!!!!!
Horsemanoffaith

I have installed the equalizer, but when I enable the eq, all I get is static… what gives?
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http://www.ryanwiancko.com Ryan

is he still supporting this?

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/psyke83/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/psyke83/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Ricky

I am afraid not. The old packages are still there but there is no support for maverick.

Gast

I used it in Ubuntu 10.04 and have now updated to 10.10… it still works but i cant open the settings.

Getting settings…
ls: Zugriff auf /home/marco/.pulse/presets/*.preset nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/pulseaudio-equalizer/pulseaudio-equalizer.py”, line 519, in
Equalizer()
File “/usr/share/pulseaudio-equalizer/pulseaudio-equalizer.py”, line 362, in __init__
icon = self.window.set_icon_from_file(“/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16×16/apps/gnome-volume-control.svg”)
glib.GError: Datei »/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16×16/apps/gnome-volume-control.svg« konnte nicht geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

Well my settings are still good and I don’t want to deactivate it. But it would be nice if there will be an update
Sagittarius23

Great work!
Mymail

this dosnt work !
Frank

Awesome man! That’s what I was looking for. Gone away that thin sound forever
LoBiLL

works perfectly. I wish I could do this for the community. One day… thank you psyke83!
Mander

I just installed Maverick.

I ran this through the terminal and here’s my output:

mander@Mander:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:psyke83/ppa
[sudo] password for mander:
Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg –trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv CCE352759E780B5F7700D57EBE1B248616AE4E77
gpg: requesting key 16AE4E77 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 16AE4E77: public key “Launchpad PPA for Conn” imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
mander@Mander:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://linux.dropbox.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Hit http://archive.canonical.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ maverick/partner Translation-en
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org maverick Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg [72B]
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Hit http://linux.dropbox.com maverick Release
Ign http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ maverick/partner Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com maverick Release
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/universe Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/psyke83/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/psyke83/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick Release
Hit http://linux.dropbox.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com maverick/partner i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick Release
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org/ maverick/free Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/universe Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org/ maverick/free Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org/ maverick/non-free Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/multiverse i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org/ maverick/non-free Translation-en_US
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org maverick Release
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org maverick/free Sources
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org maverick/non-free Sources
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org maverick/free i386 Packages
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org maverick/non-free i386 Packages
Fetched 72B in 5s (14B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/psyke83/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/psyke83/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
mander@Mander:~$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package pulseaudio-equalizer

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Is there a work-around for a relative noob like myself?

http://twitter.com/Grant_Sewell_IT Grant Sewell

I know this is a couple of months old now, but I’ve just found this and think it’s awesome.

The problem you’re having is that when you use “add-apt-repository”, it tries to guess where the files will reside on the server. It is trying to download files from:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/psyke83/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz

Unfortunately, it isn’t that intelligent. The …/dists/maverick/… directory structure doesn’t exist. Thankfully it is quite easy to rectify the situation… but it will involve either editing a file (easy) or mangling your way through Ubuntu’s repository tool (less easy, in my opinion).

The file you’ll need to edit is likely to be:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/psyke83-ppa-maverick.list

Edit this file as root (or use “gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/psyke83-ppa-maverick.list”) and replace the word “maverick” with “lucid”.

I know you’re running Maverick and not Lucid, but it should work none-the-less.

Give it a shot. This equaliser is absolutely awesome!