How To Install lilypond-fonts on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond-fonts on Debian 11.
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 Debian 11. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 11
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 Debian 11, 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 Debian 11 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
Dependencies
lilypond-fonts have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond-fonts package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
