How To Install stops on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install stops on Debian 11. stops is Stop and instrument definitions for Aeolus

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stops on Debian 11.

What is stops

stops is:

Aeolus is a synthesised (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ emulator that should be good enough to make an organist enjoy playing it. It is a software synthesiser optimised for this job, with possibly hundreds of controls for each stop, that enable the user to “voice” their instrument.

This package contains definitions of stops and of three instruments to be used with the aeolus organ synth: Aeolus (the default instrument), Aeolus1 and Aeolus2, selected with the -I command-line argument to aeolus.

This package contains binary instrument data, which have been created by the instrument editor feature in aeolus (accessible by holding down Ctrl then left-mouse-click on any stop in the aeolus GUI).

There are three methods to install stops on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install stops Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install stops

Install stops Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install stops using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install stops

Install stops 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 stops using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stops

How To Uninstall stops on Debian 11

To uninstall only the stops package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove stops

Uninstall stops And Its Dependencies

To uninstall stops and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stops

Remove stops Configurations and Data

To remove stops configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge stops

Remove stops configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stops

Dependencies

stops have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stops package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.