How To Install bristol-data on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install bristol-data on Debian 11. bristol-data is vintage synthesizer emulator (data files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bristol-data on Debian 11.

What is bristol-data

bristol-data is:

Bristol is a synthesizer emulator application. Bristol uses the sound card PCM generator and can be MIDI driven, furthermore it can be set to use the low latency scheduling feature of the kernel, reducing audio under runs. It can handle any number of simultaneous synthesizers (they all connect to the same engine). It supports splitting and layering the keyboard with multiple synthesizers on a single midi channel. Currently Bristol emulates the following keyboards: Moog Mini, Moog Voyager (Bristol “Explorer”), Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Roland Juno-6, Yamaha DX-7, Hammond (single manual), Hammond B3 (dual manual).

This package contains the application data files.

There are three methods to install bristol-data 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 bristol-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bristol-data

Install bristol-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bristol-data

Install bristol-data 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 bristol-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bristol-data

How To Uninstall bristol-data on Debian 11

To uninstall only the bristol-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bristol-data

Uninstall bristol-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bristol-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bristol-data

Remove bristol-data Configurations and Data

To remove bristol-data configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bristol-data

Remove bristol-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bristol-data

Dependencies

bristol-data have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bristol-data package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.