How To Install supercollider on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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 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 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install supercollider
How To Uninstall supercollider on Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove supercollider
Remove supercollider Configurations and Data
To remove supercollider
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install supercollider
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.