How To Install hydrogen-drumkits on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hydrogen-drumkits on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is hydrogen-drumkits
hydrogen-drumkits is:
This package contains a collection of drumkits for Hydrogen, a sample based drum machine/step sequencer.
More drumkits can be installed per-user via the Hydrogen’s “Import library” function in the “Instruments” menu.
There are three methods to install hydrogen-drumkits on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hydrogen-drumkits Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hydrogen-drumkits using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hydrogen-drumkits
Install hydrogen-drumkits Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hydrogen-drumkits using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hydrogen-drumkits
Install hydrogen-drumkits 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 hydrogen-drumkits using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hydrogen-drumkits
How To Uninstall hydrogen-drumkits on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the hydrogen-drumkits package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hydrogen-drumkits
Uninstall hydrogen-drumkits And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hydrogen-drumkits and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hydrogen-drumkits
Remove hydrogen-drumkits Configurations and Data
To remove hydrogen-drumkits configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hydrogen-drumkits
Remove hydrogen-drumkits configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hydrogen-drumkits configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hydrogen-drumkits
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hydrogen-drumkits package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
