How To Install vco-plugins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install vco-plugins on Debian 9. vco-plugins is LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vco-plugins on Debian 9.

What is vco-plugins

vco-plugins is:

This plugin contains three anti-aliased oscillators, all based on the concept of using precomputed bandlimited Dirac pulses to construct the classical waveforms. They are both memory and CPU efficient. The first one produces a flat spectrum (impulses) and the second generates a sawtooth waveform. The third one (new in 0.3.0), provides a variable width rectangular waveform.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vco-plugins

Install vco-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install vco-plugins

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

sudo aptitude -y install vco-plugins

How To Uninstall vco-plugins on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove vco-plugins

Uninstall vco-plugins And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vco-plugins

Remove vco-plugins Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge vco-plugins

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

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

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

Dependencies

vco-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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