How To Install guitarix on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install guitarix on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is guitarix
guitarix is:
Guitarix is a rock guitar amplifier for the JACK Audio Connection Kit with one input and two outputs. It provides one JACK input port and two JACK output ports. It is designed to produce nice trash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds. Controls for bass, treble, gain, compressor, tube selector, distortion, flanger, freeverb, crybaby (wah), etc are available.
Guitarix is available as a GTK+ interface and the project provides LV2 and LADSPA plugins (see the guitarix-lv2 and guitarix-ladspa packages).
This package provides the standalone application with a GTK+ interface.
There are three methods to install guitarix 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 guitarix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install guitarix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install guitarix
Install guitarix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install guitarix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install guitarix
Install guitarix 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 guitarix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install guitarix
How To Uninstall guitarix on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the guitarix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove guitarix
Uninstall guitarix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall guitarix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove guitarix
Remove guitarix Configurations and Data
To remove guitarix configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge guitarix
Remove guitarix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove guitarix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guitarix
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install guitarix package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
