How To Install csound-plugins on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install csound-plugins on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is csound-plugins
csound-plugins is:
Csound is a sound and music synthesis system. Drawing from over 450 signal processing modules, it can be used to model virtually any synthesizer or multi-effect processor. It can work either in real-time or as a compiler.
Csound is to sound synthesis as C is to programming.
This package contains additional plugins (that depend on 3rd party libraries).
There are three methods to install csound-plugins on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install csound-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install csound-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install csound-plugins
Install csound-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install csound-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install csound-plugins
Install csound-plugins 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install csound-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install csound-plugins
How To Uninstall csound-plugins on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the csound-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove csound-plugins
Uninstall csound-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall csound-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove csound-plugins
Remove csound-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove csound-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge csound-plugins
Remove csound-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove csound-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge csound-plugins
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install csound-plugins package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
