How To Install swh-plugins on Debian 10

Learn how to install swh-plugins on Debian 10 with this tutorial. swh-plugins is Steve Harriss LADSPA plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install swh-plugins on Debian 10.

What is swh-plugins

swh-plugins is:

Steve Harris has written a large number of plugins for LADSPA compatible hosts (e.g. GLAME, Sweep and ecasound). The plugins available are:

amp, fast overdrive, overdrive (with colourisation), comb filter, waveshaper, ringmod, divider, diode, decliper, pitch scaler, 16 band equaliser, sinus wavewrapper, hermes filter, chorus, flanger, decimater, oscillator, gverb, phasers, harmonic generators, surround encoders and more.

There are three methods to install swh-plugins on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install swh-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install swh-plugins

Install swh-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install swh-plugins

Install swh-plugins 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 swh-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install swh-plugins

How To Uninstall swh-plugins on Debian 10

To uninstall only the swh-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove swh-plugins

Uninstall swh-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall swh-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove swh-plugins

Remove swh-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove swh-plugins configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge swh-plugins

Remove swh-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swh-plugins

Dependencies

swh-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install swh-plugins package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.