How To Install stk-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install stk-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. stk-doc is Sound Synthesis Toolkit (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stk-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is stk-doc

stk-doc 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 contains the documentation for the sound synthesis toolkit.

There are three methods to install stk-doc 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 stk-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install stk-doc

Install stk-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install stk-doc

Install stk-doc 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 stk-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stk-doc

How To Uninstall stk-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the stk-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove stk-doc

Uninstall stk-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stk-doc

Remove stk-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge stk-doc

Remove stk-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stk-doc

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Summary

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