How To Install paulstretch on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install paulstretch

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is paulstretch and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install paulstretch on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install paulstretch using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt -y install paulstretch

Install paulstretch using apt

Because paulstretch is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install paulstretch using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install paulstretch

Install paulstretch 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 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install paulstretch by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install paulstretch

How to upgrade (update) a single package paulstretch using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the paulstretch, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install paulstretch

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install paulstretch

How To Uninstall paulstretch from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the paulstretch package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove paulstretch

Uninstall paulstretch and all its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove paulstretch

Remove paulstretch with all configurations and data

To remove paulstretch configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge paulstretch

Remove paulstretch completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to paulstretch package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge paulstretch

Extra info and code examples

This is a program for stretching the audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by "spectral smoothing" the sounds. It can transform any sound/music to a texture. It produces high quality extreme sound stretching. While most sound stretching software sounds bad when trying to stretch the sounds a lot, this one is optimized for extreme sound stretching. The stretch amount is unlimited. You can play the stretched sound in real-time (including the possibility to "freeze" the sound) or you can render the whole sound or a part of it to audio files. It has many post-processing effects, like: filters, pitch/frequency shifters Support for WAV, OGG VORBIS files and MP3 files.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install paulstretch using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the paulstretch from Ubuntu 22.04.

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