How To Install faustworks on Debian 10

Learn how to install faustworks on Debian 10 with this tutorial. faustworks is IDE for Faust dsp programming language

Introduction

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

What is faustworks

faustworks is:

FaustWorks is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the Faust dsp programming language. It relies on scripts to generate binaries for various audio targets. These scripts are located in /usr/share/FaustWorks/scripts.lin/

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install faustworks

Install faustworks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install faustworks

Install faustworks 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 faustworks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install faustworks

How To Uninstall faustworks on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove faustworks

Uninstall faustworks And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove faustworks

Remove faustworks Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge faustworks

Remove faustworks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge faustworks

Dependencies

faustworks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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