How To Install nted on Debian 10

Learn how to install nted on Debian 10 with this tutorial. nted is Musical score editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nted on Debian 10.

What is nted

nted is:

NtEd is a GTK+ score editor. It intends to be really WYSIWYG: what you see on the screen is exactly what you get on printer output. It supports up to 4 voices per staff, drum notes, 5 lyrics lines, N-Tuplets, context changes, repeats with alternatives, configurable music instruments per staff, MIDI / MusicXML import, PS / PDF / SVG / PNG / Lilypond / MIDI export. Scores can be played through the ALSA sequencer.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install nted

Install nted Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nted

Install nted 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 nted using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nted

How To Uninstall nted on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove nted

Uninstall nted And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nted and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nted

Remove nted Configurations and Data

To remove nted configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nted

Remove nted configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nted

Dependencies

nted have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nted package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.