How To Install faust on Debian 12

Learn how to install faust on Debian 12 with this tutorial. faust is functional programming language for realtime audio applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install faust on Debian 12.

What is faust

faust is:

Faust is a functional programming language specifically designed for realtime audio applications and plugins. The syntax of the language is block diagram oriented. The faust compiler translate signal processing specifications into optimized C++ code for signal processing applications.

The generated code can be wrapped into an ‘architecture file’ in order to create for example a standalone jack/gtk application. Several architecture file are provided and additional ones are fairly easy to add.

Syntax highlighting of faust files for various editors is included in the ‘faust-common’ package (which will be automatically installed along this package).

There are three methods to install faust on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install faust Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install faust using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install faust

Install faust Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install faust using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install faust

Install faust Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install faust using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install faust

How To Uninstall faust on Debian 12

To uninstall only the faust package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove faust

Uninstall faust And Its Dependencies

To uninstall faust and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove faust

Remove faust Configurations and Data

To remove faust configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge faust

Remove faust configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove faust configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge faust

Dependencies

faust have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install faust package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.