How To Install radium-compressor on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radium-compressor on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is radium-compressor
radium-compressor is:
Radium Compressor is the system compressor in Radium, but distributed as a standalone JACK client application.
Radium Compressor uses the stereo compressor found in effect.lib in the Faust distribution.
There are three methods to install radium-compressor on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install radium-compressor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install radium-compressor using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install radium-compressor
Install radium-compressor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install radium-compressor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install radium-compressor
Install radium-compressor 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 radium-compressor using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install radium-compressor
How To Uninstall radium-compressor on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the radium-compressor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove radium-compressor
Uninstall radium-compressor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall radium-compressor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radium-compressor
Remove radium-compressor Configurations and Data
To remove radium-compressor configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge radium-compressor
Remove radium-compressor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove radium-compressor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radium-compressor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radium-compressor package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
