How To Install yatm on Debian 10

Learn how to install yatm on Debian 10 with this tutorial. yatm is Command line audio file player with time stretching capabilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yatm on Debian 10.

What is yatm

yatm is:

Yatm (Yet Another Time Machine) is a very simple command line audio player. Its main purpose is to play audio files at a different tempo while retaining the original sounds pitch. This is very useful for listening to audiobooks at a slightly higher speed than they were originally recorded with. It can also be helpful when listening to musical passages at a slower speed to be able to distinguish the different notes more easily.

Changing the pitch while keeping the tempo is also supported. Musical cents and semitones can be used to specify pitch change. This makes it easy to use for musicians. The notes you have are in G but the recording you’d like to play along with is in F? No problem, transpose the recording up two semitones. You’d like to play along with this baroque recording that uses original pitch? Just tune the music up about 80 cents and you should be fine.

There are three methods to install yatm 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 yatm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yatm

Install yatm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install yatm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install yatm

Install yatm 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 yatm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yatm

How To Uninstall yatm on Debian 10

To uninstall only the yatm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yatm

Uninstall yatm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yatm

Remove yatm Configurations and Data

To remove yatm configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yatm

Remove yatm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yatm

Dependencies

yatm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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