How To Install lilypond-fonts on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-fonts using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lilypond-fonts

How To Uninstall lilypond-fonts on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• lilypond-fonts website

Summary

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