How To Install laditools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install laditools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is laditools
laditools is:
LADI Tools is a set of tools aiming to achieve the goals of the LADI project to improve desktop integration and user workflow of Linux audio system based on JACK and ladish. Those tools take advantage of the D-Bus interfaces recently added to JACK and ladish to ease the configuration and use of those two great programs.
The following tools are included:
- g15ladi - a JACK monitor for g15 keyboards
- ladi-control-center - graphical configuration tool to setup JACK’s configuration
- ladi-player - convenient VLC-style application to control JACK and manage studios
- ladi-system-log - JACK, ladish and a2jmidid log viewer
- ladi-system-tray - system indicator that allows users to start, stop and monitor JACK, as well as start some JACK related applications
This package includes basic set of tools to control and monitor the LADI system, that is JACK and ladish in a D-Bus environment.
There are three methods to install laditools 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 laditools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install laditools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install laditools
Install laditools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install laditools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install laditools
Install laditools 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 laditools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install laditools
How To Uninstall laditools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the laditools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove laditools
Uninstall laditools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall laditools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove laditools
Remove laditools Configurations and Data
To remove laditools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge laditools
Remove laditools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove laditools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge laditools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install laditools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.