How To Install musescore-general-soundfont on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install musescore-general-soundfont on Debian 10.
What is musescore-general-soundfont
musescore-general-soundfont is:
This is the new standard hard disc space-saving SF3 format soundfont as shipped with MuseScore 2.2 and newer.
MuseScore_General attempts to keep the installed-size footprint low while providing the complete GM (General MIDI) sound set and some extras, although its full version is larger than its antecessor fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont because of the new focus on improving quality. (The small version is, despite restoring stereo samples for some instruments, actually smaller, thanks to numerous optimisations and bugfixes.)
The musescore-general-soundfont package contains everything at best quality; musescore-general-soundfont-small is only a fourth the size (about the same as fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont) while being a drop-in replacement (identical bank configuration) at comparable quality to the full soundfont, missing only the separate ensembles (using identical samples for e.g. first/second violin) and some of the new larger instrument samples. An SF2 (uncompressed) version ships in the musescore-general-soundfont-lossless package, for use by audiophiles, with synthesisers lacking SF3 support, or to avoid the long startup times of MuseScore.
It can be used with most modern MIDI synthesisers which support the SF3 format, although early implementations (such as the one from MuseScore before release 2.2) had bugs making the resulting sound bad; instead use fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont for those.
As it comes under the MIT licence, it can be used in most settings, but do remember that waveforms generated using this soundfont are ??copies or substantial portions of the?? soundfont.
This package will be installed into /usr/share/sounds/sf3/ which is the standard Debian location for system-wide SF3 soundfonts.
There are three methods to install musescore-general-soundfont on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install musescore-general-soundfont Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install musescore-general-soundfont using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install musescore-general-soundfont
Install musescore-general-soundfont Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install musescore-general-soundfont using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install musescore-general-soundfont
Install musescore-general-soundfont 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install musescore-general-soundfont using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install musescore-general-soundfont
How To Uninstall musescore-general-soundfont on Debian 10
To uninstall only the musescore-general-soundfont package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove musescore-general-soundfont
Uninstall musescore-general-soundfont And Its Dependencies
To uninstall musescore-general-soundfont and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove musescore-general-soundfont
Remove musescore-general-soundfont Configurations and Data
To remove musescore-general-soundfont configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge musescore-general-soundfont
Remove musescore-general-soundfont configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove musescore-general-soundfont configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge musescore-general-soundfont
Dependencies
musescore-general-soundfont have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install musescore-general-soundfont package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
