How To Install supercollider on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider on Kali Linux.

What is supercollider

supercollider is:

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.

This metapackage installs the standard core components of supercollider, including the language, the synthesis server, and the code editor (IDE).

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

Install supercollider Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install supercollider

Install supercollider Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install supercollider

Install supercollider Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install supercollider

How To Uninstall supercollider on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove supercollider

Uninstall supercollider And Its Dependencies

To uninstall supercollider and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove supercollider

Remove supercollider Configurations and Data

To remove supercollider configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge supercollider

Remove supercollider configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge supercollider

Dependencies

supercollider have the following dependencies:

• supercollider-language
• supercollider-server
• supercollider-ide

References

• supercollider website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.