I am still using Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) as Unity/Gnome3 sucks. I was looking for a way to remove the userspace pulseaudio from Maverick.
To remove pulseaudio completely:
$ sudo apt-get purge libcanberra-pulse pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-udev
pulseaudio-module-x11 gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol
This will remove pulseaudio from your system and it will also remove your volume applet on your top panel. To get back your audible world:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dtl131/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-applets gnome-media gnome-settings-daemon libcanberra0
Restart Ubuntu.
works like a charm
thanks a lot (;
Glad it helped! 🙂