How To Install stymulator on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stymulator on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is stymulator
stymulator is:
STYMulator is an Open Source (GPL License) player which plays music files in the YM chiptune format. In particular the YM files are Yamaha YM2149 soundchip music datas (registers) dumped from the ATARI 16-bit computers.
The YM chiptune ‘standard’ has been introduced in the middle of 90’s by Arnaud Carré aka Leonard/OXG. His sensational ST-Sound player has been released for Windows only. Ten years after the first ST-Sound creation he released ST-Sound library under GPL license.
STYMulator has a very simple terminal GUI. It has been written in pure ANSI C code with ncurses library. Sounds are generated through ALSA.
This package contains both ymplayer (curse based player) and ym2wav, a console YM to Wave converter.
There are three methods to install stymulator 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 stymulator Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stymulator using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stymulator
Install stymulator Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stymulator using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stymulator
Install stymulator 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 stymulator using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stymulator
How To Uninstall stymulator on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the stymulator package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stymulator
Uninstall stymulator And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stymulator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stymulator
Remove stymulator Configurations and Data
To remove stymulator configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stymulator
Remove stymulator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stymulator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stymulator
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stymulator package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
