How To Install stymulator on Debian 12

Learn how to install stymulator on Debian 12 with this tutorial. stymulator is Curses based player and converter for the YM chiptune format

Introduction

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

What is stymulator

stymulator is:

STYMulator is an Open Source (GPL License) player which plays music files in the YM chiptune format. In particular the YM files are Yamaha YM2149 soundchip music datas (registers) dumped from the ATARI 16-bit computers.

The YM chiptune ‘standard’ has been introduced in the middle of 90’s by Arnaud Carr? aka Leonard/OXG. His sensational ST-Sound player has been released for Windows only. Ten years after the first ST-Sound creation he released ST-Sound library under GPL license.

STYMulator has a very simple terminal GUI. It has been written in pure ANSI C code with ncurses library. Sounds are generated through ALSA.

This package contains both ymplayer (curse based player) and ym2wav, a console YM to Wave converter.

There are three methods to install stymulator 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 stymulator Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install stymulator

Install stymulator Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install stymulator

Install stymulator 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 stymulator using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stymulator

How To Uninstall stymulator on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove stymulator

Uninstall stymulator And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stymulator

Remove stymulator Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge stymulator

Remove stymulator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stymulator

Dependencies

stymulator have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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