How To Install pd-windowing on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install pd-windowing on Ubuntu 18.04. pd-windowing is library of windowing functions in Pd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pd-windowing on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is pd-windowing

pd-windowing is:

The windowing library provides Pd objects for a list of standard windowing functions, which are applied per block with each DSP tick: Hanning, Hamming, Blackman, Cosine, Connes, Bartlett, Welch, Lanczos, Gaussian, and Kaiser.

There are three methods to install pd-windowing 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 pd-windowing Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pd-windowing

Install pd-windowing Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pd-windowing

Install pd-windowing 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 pd-windowing using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pd-windowing

How To Uninstall pd-windowing on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the pd-windowing package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pd-windowing

Uninstall pd-windowing And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pd-windowing and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pd-windowing

Remove pd-windowing Configurations and Data

To remove pd-windowing configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pd-windowing

Remove pd-windowing configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pd-windowing

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pd-windowing package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.