How To Install timemachine on Debian 10

Learn how to install timemachine on Debian 10 with this tutorial. timemachine is JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install timemachine on Debian 10.

What is timemachine

timemachine is:

Timemachine writes the last 10 seconds of audio before the button press and everything from now on up to the next button press into a WAV-file.

The idea is that you doodle away with whatever is kicking around in your studio and when you heard an interesting noise, you’d press record and capture it, without having to try and recreate it.

It uses the JACK audio connection kit, an API that lets audio application communicate with each other and share audio data in realtime.

There are three methods to install timemachine on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install timemachine Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install timemachine

Install timemachine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install timemachine

Install timemachine 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 timemachine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install timemachine

How To Uninstall timemachine on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove timemachine

Uninstall timemachine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall timemachine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove timemachine

Remove timemachine Configurations and Data

To remove timemachine configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge timemachine

Remove timemachine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge timemachine

Dependencies

timemachine have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install timemachine package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.