How To Install stk on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stk on Debian 9.
What is stk
stk is:
The Sound Synthesis Toolkit is a C++ library with implementations of several sound synthesis algorithms, starting from Frequency Modulation, over Physical Modelling and others. It can be used as a library, but it also provides some nice software synthesizers.
This package provides the example files for the sound synthesis toolkit.
There are three methods to install stk on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stk
Install stk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stk
Install stk 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 stk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stk
How To Uninstall stk on Debian 9
To uninstall only the stk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stk
Uninstall stk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stk
Remove stk Configurations and Data
To remove stk configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stk
Remove stk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stk
Dependencies
stk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stk package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.