My next Linux dive-in is going to be KDE NEON. I used to love Ubuntu MATE, but it wasn't as maintained as I'd like, so I jumped to KDE - pre-NEON - and haven't looked back.

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2026-01-13, 19:00:

The application I was trying to run was looking for libaoss.so. The tar file I linked has 1 so file so I am assuming that's the correct one.

I don't think it's osspd, and still I don't know what this libaoss is other than that it relates to audio

libaoss.so is part of the alsa-oss package on Debian/Ubuntu and the documentation states that starting the application with the aoss wrapper causes it to access native ALSA device files instead of the OSS ones.

The first way stated there I think refers to the native kernel OSS driver enabled by CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS when building the kernel but most distributions no longer enable that.

What is the application you're trying to run?