How To Install supercollider-server on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-server on Debian 9. supercollider-server is real time audio synthesis server

Introduction

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

What is supercollider-server

supercollider-server 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 synthesis server.

There are three methods to install supercollider-server 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-server 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-server using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install supercollider-server

Install supercollider-server Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install supercollider-server

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

sudo aptitude -y install supercollider-server

How To Uninstall supercollider-server on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove supercollider-server

Uninstall supercollider-server And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove supercollider-server

Remove supercollider-server Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge supercollider-server

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

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

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

Dependencies

supercollider-server have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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