How To Install bristol on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install bristol on Ubuntu 22.04. bristol is vintage synthesizer emulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bristol on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is bristol

bristol is:

Bristol is a synthesizer emulator application. Bristol uses the sound card PCM generator and can be MIDI driven, furthermore it can be set to use the low latency scheduling feature of the kernel, reducing audio under runs. It can handle any number of simultaneous synthesizers (they all connect to the same engine). It supports splitting and layering the keyboard with multiple synthesizers on a single midi channel. Currently Bristol emulates the following keyboards: Moog Mini, Moog Voyager (Bristol “Explorer”), Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Roland Juno-6, Yamaha DX-7, Hammond (single manual), Hammond B3 (dual manual).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bristol

Install bristol Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bristol

Install bristol 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 bristol using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bristol

How To Uninstall bristol on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove bristol

Uninstall bristol And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bristol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bristol

Remove bristol Configurations and Data

To remove bristol configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bristol

Remove bristol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bristol

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bristol package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.