How To Install supercollider-supernova on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-supernova on Debian 9. supercollider-supernova is real time audio synthesis server (multiprocessor version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-supernova on Debian 9.

What is supercollider-supernova

supercollider-supernova 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 package contains the multiprocessor aware and parallelization capable synthesis server supernova. Use of this server is manually enabled via a Server.supernova call before starting the server. This server does not work on i486 or i586 processors.

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

sudo apt-get -y install supercollider-supernova

Install supercollider-supernova Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install supercollider-supernova

Install supercollider-supernova 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 supercollider-supernova using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install supercollider-supernova

How To Uninstall supercollider-supernova on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove supercollider-supernova

Uninstall supercollider-supernova And Its Dependencies

To uninstall supercollider-supernova and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove supercollider-supernova

Remove supercollider-supernova Configurations and Data

To remove supercollider-supernova configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge supercollider-supernova

Remove supercollider-supernova configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge supercollider-supernova

Dependencies

supercollider-supernova have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-supernova package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.