How To Install elektroid on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elektroid on Debian 12.
What is elektroid
elektroid is:
Elektroid is an transfer application for Elektron devices.
With Elektroid you can easily upload and download audio files, projects, sounds and presets to and from Elektron devices. It can also be used to send and receive MIDI SysEx files.
Elektroid has been reported to work with Model:Samples, Model:Cycles, Digitakt, Digitone, Syntakt and Analog Rytm MKI and MKII.
This package provides both the GUI and CLI application of elektroid.
There are three methods to install elektroid on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install elektroid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elektroid using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elektroid
Install elektroid Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elektroid using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elektroid
Install elektroid 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 elektroid using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elektroid
How To Uninstall elektroid on Debian 12
To uninstall only the elektroid package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elektroid
Uninstall elektroid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elektroid and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elektroid
Remove elektroid Configurations and Data
To remove elektroid configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elektroid
Remove elektroid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elektroid configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elektroid
Dependencies
elektroid have the following dependencies:
- libasound2
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjson-glib-1.0-0
- libpulse0
- libsamplerate0
- libsndfile1
- libzip4
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elektroid package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
