How To Install multimedia-puredata on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-puredata
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is multimedia-puredata
multimedia-puredata is:
Metapackage which installs packages, externals, libraries and plug-ins to work with Pure Data (aka Pd), a graphical realtime computer music and signal processing language. Task: ubuntustudio-audio
There are three methods to install multimedia-puredata
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 multimedia-puredata Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install multimedia-puredata
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-puredata
Install multimedia-puredata Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install multimedia-puredata
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install multimedia-puredata
Install multimedia-puredata 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 multimedia-puredata
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-puredata
How To Uninstall multimedia-puredata on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the multimedia-puredata
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove multimedia-puredata
Uninstall multimedia-puredata And Its Dependencies
To uninstall multimedia-puredata
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-puredata
Remove multimedia-puredata Configurations and Data
To remove multimedia-puredata
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-puredata
Remove multimedia-puredata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove multimedia-puredata
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multimedia-puredata
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-puredata
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.