How To Install iem-plugin-suite-vst on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install iem-plugin-suite-vst on Ubuntu 22.04. iem-plugin-suite-vst is IEMs spatialization suite - VST2 plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iem-plugin-suite-vst on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is iem-plugin-suite-vst

iem-plugin-suite-vst is:

The IEM Plug-in Suite is an audio plugin suite created at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (Graz, Austria). It features Higher-Order Ambisonic plug-ins (up to 7th order), among them a number of state of the art encoders, directional compressors, directivity shapers, delay and reverb effects and analysis tools.

This package provides the plugins so they can be used by VST2 hosts.

There are three methods to install iem-plugin-suite-vst on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install iem-plugin-suite-vst Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install iem-plugin-suite-vst using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iem-plugin-suite-vst

Install iem-plugin-suite-vst Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install iem-plugin-suite-vst using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install iem-plugin-suite-vst

Install iem-plugin-suite-vst 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install iem-plugin-suite-vst using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iem-plugin-suite-vst

How To Uninstall iem-plugin-suite-vst on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the iem-plugin-suite-vst package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove iem-plugin-suite-vst

Uninstall iem-plugin-suite-vst And Its Dependencies

To uninstall iem-plugin-suite-vst and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iem-plugin-suite-vst

Remove iem-plugin-suite-vst Configurations and Data

To remove iem-plugin-suite-vst configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iem-plugin-suite-vst

Remove iem-plugin-suite-vst configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove iem-plugin-suite-vst configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iem-plugin-suite-vst

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iem-plugin-suite-vst package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.