How To Install frescobaldi on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install frescobaldi
on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux
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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove frescobaldi
Remove frescobaldi Configurations and Data
To remove frescobaldi
configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install frescobaldi
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.