I deleted pulse audio folder and now no sound what to do

I'm new to the Linux world and chose Ubuntu as my daily driver. My sound and everything was going fine when i ran this command in terminal and made my life a mess : The command- pulse audio -k After that i saw a blog saying i should delete my Pulse folder in etc and I did that. Now my sound i.e both my output and input are gone please help me get my sound back ! I get this error when I run pulse audio --startE: [pulse audio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.Please please help me

2 Answers

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command

sudo apt install --reinstall pulseaudio

to recreate the deleted folder /etc/pulse/ and it's content.

Yipee I got the solution solved this issue by deleting ~/.config/pulse followed by a reboot. So in summary, running these commands solved all my audio problems after a few weeks of debugging (so stupid if you see it now, but whatever works right?)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio pavucontrol
sudo alsa force-reload

reboot