How To Install lilypond-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond-doc on Kali Linux. lilypond-doc is LilyPond Documentation in info format (and metapackage)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond-doc on Kali Linux.

What is lilypond-doc

lilypond-doc 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 includes the info documentation and recommends the html and pdf documentation for the LilyPond music typesetting software.

There are three methods to install lilypond-doc 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 lilypond-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lilypond-doc

Install lilypond-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lilypond-doc

Install lilypond-doc 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 lilypond-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lilypond-doc

How To Uninstall lilypond-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lilypond-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lilypond-doc

Uninstall lilypond-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lilypond-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lilypond-doc

Remove lilypond-doc Configurations and Data

To remove lilypond-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lilypond-doc

Remove lilypond-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lilypond-doc

Dependencies

lilypond-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.