How To Install liblo7 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblo7
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblo7
liblo7 is:
LibLO is a lightweight, easy to use implementation of the OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol (see http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/ for details).
Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology. OSC features:
- Open-ended, dynamic, URL-style symbolic naming scheme
- Symbolic and high-resolution numeric argument data
- Pattern matching language to specify multiple recipients of a single message
- High resolution time tags
- “Bundles” of messages whose effects must occur simultaneously
- Query system to dynamically find out the capabilities of an OSC server and get documentation Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-audio
There are three methods to install liblo7
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblo7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblo7
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblo7
Install liblo7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblo7
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblo7
Install liblo7 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 liblo7
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblo7
How To Uninstall liblo7 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblo7
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblo7
Uninstall liblo7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblo7
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblo7
Remove liblo7 Configurations and Data
To remove liblo7
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblo7
Remove liblo7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblo7
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblo7
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblo7
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.