How To Install hydrogen 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 hydrogen on Ubuntu.

What is `hydrogen`

hydrogen is:

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine which provides a professional, yet simple and intuitive, pattern-based drum programming interface.

General features:

Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on Qt 5.
Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.

Sequencer and mixer features:

Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
Ability to import/export song files.
Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
Multiple patterns playing at once.

Other features:

JACK, ALSA, PortAudio, OSS and PulseAudio audio drivers.
ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
Import/export of drumkits.
Export song to wav file.
Export song to midi file.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hydrogen

Install hydrogen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hydrogen

Install hydrogen 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 hydrogen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hydrogen

How To Uninstall hydrogen on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove hydrogen

Uninstall hydrogen And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hydrogen

Remove hydrogen Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge hydrogen

Remove hydrogen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hydrogen

Dependencies

hydrogen have the following dependencies:

References

hydrogen website

Summary

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