How To Install libroar-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libroar-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libroar-dev is header files and documentation for the RoarAudio libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libroar-dev on Debian 10.

What is libroar-dev

libroar-dev is:

RoarAudio is a server for audio mixing. Its main purpose is to mix audio from different clients before sending it to its outputs (for example a soundcard). It is completely network transparent (UNIX sockets, TCP/IP, DECnet) and supports many common codecs like Ogg Vorbis, Speex or FLAC.

This packet consists of the following libraries: libroar: The RoarAudio main library. It contains code for talking to roard, virtual IO functions useful not only for audio applications, memory management functions like buffers, lists, stacks.

libroardsp: Digital Signal Processing library. It contains code to work with PCM signals including simple filters, converters and code to work with some (realtime) codecs.

libroareio: This is the RoarAudio Extended IO library. It contains code for talking to extended IO. Currently it contains code to talk to soundcards without roard. This is not meant to be used by other applications directly.

libroarlight: Light Control support library. It contains code to support the usage of the light control subsystem.

libroarmidi: MIDI subsystem support library. It contains code to support the usage of the MIDI subsystem.

This package contains the development headers for the libroar library.

There are three methods to install libroar-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libroar-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libroar-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libroar-dev

Install libroar-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libroar-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libroar-dev

Install libroar-dev 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 libroar-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libroar-dev

How To Uninstall libroar-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libroar-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libroar-dev

Uninstall libroar-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libroar-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libroar-dev

Remove libroar-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libroar-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libroar-dev

Remove libroar-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libroar-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libroar-dev

Dependencies

libroar-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libroar-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.