How To Install libdrumstick-rt-backends 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 libdrumstick-rt-backends on Ubuntu.

What is `libdrumstick-rt-backends`

libdrumstick-rt-backends is:

This library is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface, using Qt5 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for RMI and WRK file processing are also included.

This package contains the backends for realtime MIDI I/O.

There are three methods to install libdrumstick-rt-backends 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 libdrumstick-rt-backends Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdrumstick-rt-backends

Install libdrumstick-rt-backends Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libdrumstick-rt-backends using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libdrumstick-rt-backends

Install libdrumstick-rt-backends 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 libdrumstick-rt-backends using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdrumstick-rt-backends

How To Uninstall libdrumstick-rt-backends on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libdrumstick-rt-backends package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdrumstick-rt-backends

Uninstall libdrumstick-rt-backends And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdrumstick-rt-backends

Remove libdrumstick-rt-backends Configurations and Data

To remove libdrumstick-rt-backends configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdrumstick-rt-backends

Remove libdrumstick-rt-backends configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libdrumstick-rt-backends configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdrumstick-rt-backends

Dependencies

libdrumstick-rt-backends have the following dependencies:

References

libdrumstick-rt-backends website

Summary

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