How To Install libdrumstick-plugins on Debian 12

Learn how to install libdrumstick-plugins on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libdrumstick-plugins is Realtime MIDI I/O with pluggable backends (Qt designer plugins)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrumstick-plugins on Debian 12.

What is libdrumstick-plugins

libdrumstick-plugins is:

This library is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface, using Qt5 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for RMI and WRK file processing are also included.

This package contains the libdrumstick Qt designer plugins.

There are three methods to install libdrumstick-plugins 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 libdrumstick-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdrumstick-plugins

Install libdrumstick-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libdrumstick-plugins

Install libdrumstick-plugins 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 libdrumstick-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdrumstick-plugins

How To Uninstall libdrumstick-plugins on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libdrumstick-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdrumstick-plugins

Uninstall libdrumstick-plugins And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdrumstick-plugins

Remove libdrumstick-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove libdrumstick-plugins configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdrumstick-plugins

Remove libdrumstick-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdrumstick-plugins

Dependencies

libdrumstick-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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