How To Install supercollider-common on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-common on Debian 9. supercollider-common is common files for SuperCollider

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-common on Debian 9.

What is supercollider-common

supercollider-common is:

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.

This package contains the architecture independent files for SuperCollider.

There are three methods to install supercollider-common on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install supercollider-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install supercollider-common

Install supercollider-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install supercollider-common

Install supercollider-common 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 supercollider-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install supercollider-common

How To Uninstall supercollider-common on Debian 9

To uninstall only the supercollider-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove supercollider-common

Uninstall supercollider-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall supercollider-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove supercollider-common

Remove supercollider-common Configurations and Data

To remove supercollider-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge supercollider-common

Remove supercollider-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge supercollider-common

Dependencies

supercollider-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.