How To Install supercollider-supernova on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-supernova on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider-supernova package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
