How To Install fluidsynth on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fluidsynth
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fluidsynth
fluidsynth is:
Fluidsynth is a real-time midi synthesizer based on the soundfont (sf2 and sf3) specifications. It can be used to render MIDI input or MIDI files to audio. The MIDI events are read from a MIDI device. The sound is rendered in real-time to the sound output device. Task: ubuntustudio-audio
There are three methods to install fluidsynth
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fluidsynth Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fluidsynth
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fluidsynth
Install fluidsynth Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fluidsynth
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fluidsynth
Install fluidsynth 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 fluidsynth
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fluidsynth
How To Uninstall fluidsynth on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fluidsynth
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fluidsynth
Uninstall fluidsynth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fluidsynth
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fluidsynth
Remove fluidsynth Configurations and Data
To remove fluidsynth
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fluidsynth
Remove fluidsynth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fluidsynth
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fluidsynth
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fluidsynth
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.