How To Install ardour-lv2-plugins on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ardour-lv2-plugins on Ubuntu.

What is ardour-lv2-plugins

ardour-lv2-plugins is:

Ardour is providing a set of LV2 plugins:

• a-comp.lv2
  • a compressor (mono & stereo versions)
• a-exp.lv2
  • an expander (mono & stereo versions)
• a-delay.lv2
  • a delay (mono version)
• a-eq.lv2
  • an equaliser (mono version)
• a-reverb.lv2
  • a reverberation (stereo version)
• a-fluidsynth.lv2
  • a SF2 player (stereo version)
• reasonablesynth.lv2
  • a reasonably good piano synth (stereo version)

This package allows these to be used by other hosts as well.

There are three methods to install ardour-lv2-plugins on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ardour-lv2-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 ardour-lv2-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ardour-lv2-plugins

Install ardour-lv2-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ardour-lv2-plugins using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ardour-lv2-plugins

Install ardour-lv2-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ardour-lv2-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ardour-lv2-plugins

How To Uninstall ardour-lv2-plugins on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the ardour-lv2-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ardour-lv2-plugins

Uninstall ardour-lv2-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ardour-lv2-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ardour-lv2-plugins

Remove ardour-lv2-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove ardour-lv2-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ardour-lv2-plugins

Remove ardour-lv2-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ardour-lv2-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ardour-lv2-plugins

Dependencies

ardour-lv2-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

• ardour-lv2-plugins website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ardour-lv2-plugins package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.