How To Install bristol on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bristol on Debian 10.
What is bristol
bristol 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).
There are three methods to install bristol 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 bristol 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bristol
Install bristol Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bristol using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bristol
Install bristol 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bristol
How To Uninstall bristol on Debian 10
To uninstall only the bristol package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bristol
Uninstall bristol And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bristol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bristol
Remove bristol Configurations and Data
To remove bristol configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bristol
Remove bristol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bristol configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bristol
Dependencies
bristol have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bristol package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.