How To Install freepats on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freepats
on Debian 11.
What is freepats
freepats is:
Freepats is a free patch set suitable for MIDI audio synthesis. It is not complete, nor comprehensive yet.
This is the legacy, small version of freepats in GUS patch format.
There are three methods to install freepats
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install freepats Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freepats
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freepats
Install freepats Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freepats
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freepats
Install freepats 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 freepats
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freepats
How To Uninstall freepats on Debian 11
To uninstall only the freepats
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freepats
Uninstall freepats And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freepats
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freepats
Remove freepats Configurations and Data
To remove freepats
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freepats
Remove freepats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freepats
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freepats
Dependencies
freepats have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freepats
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.