How To Install lilypond-fonts on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond-fonts
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is lilypond-fonts
lilypond-fonts is:
LilyPond is a music typesetter, an automated engraving system. It produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description file as input.
This package contains font files for LilyPond.
There are three methods to install lilypond-fonts
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lilypond-fonts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lilypond-fonts
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lilypond-fonts
Install lilypond-fonts Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lilypond-fonts
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lilypond-fonts
Install lilypond-fonts 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 lilypond-fonts
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lilypond-fonts
How To Uninstall lilypond-fonts on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the lilypond-fonts
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lilypond-fonts
Uninstall lilypond-fonts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lilypond-fonts
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lilypond-fonts
Remove lilypond-fonts Configurations and Data
To remove lilypond-fonts
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lilypond-fonts
Remove lilypond-fonts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lilypond-fonts
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lilypond-fonts
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond-fonts
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.