How To Install frescobaldi 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 frescobaldi on Ubuntu.

What is frescobaldi

frescobaldi is:

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the GNU General Public License.

Features:

• Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion
• Music view with advanced Point & Click
• MIDI player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files
• MIDI capturing to enter music
• Powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a music score
• Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates or scripts
• Use multiple versions of LilyPond, automatically selects the correct version
• Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and built-in Frescobaldi User Guide
• Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF
• MusicXML, MIDI and ABC import
• Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts
• Translated into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese and Ukrainian.

Music functions:

• Transpose music
• Change music from relative to absolute and vice versa
• Change the language used for note names
• Change the rhythm (double, halve, add/remove dots, copy, paste) etc.
• Hyphenate lyrics using word-processor hyphenation dictionaries
• Add spanners, dynamics, articulation easily using the Quick Insert panel
• Update LilyPond syntax using convert-ly, with display of differences

In order to use lyric hyphenation, please install your languages’ appropriate hyphenation packages, e.g. hyphen-fr for French, hyphen-ca for Catalan, etc.

Frescobaldi is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, macOS and MS Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install frescobaldi

Install frescobaldi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install frescobaldi

Install frescobaldi 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 frescobaldi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install frescobaldi

How To Uninstall frescobaldi on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove frescobaldi

Uninstall frescobaldi And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove frescobaldi

Remove frescobaldi Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge frescobaldi

Remove frescobaldi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge frescobaldi

Dependencies

frescobaldi have the following dependencies:

• python3-ly
• python3

References

• frescobaldi website

Summary

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