How To Install lilypond on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond on Kali Linux.
What is lilypond
lilypond is:
LilyPond is a music typesetter, an automated engraving system. It produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description file as input.
LilyPond supports many forms of music notation constructs, including chord names, drum notation, figured bass, grace notes, guitar tablature, modern notation (cluster notation and rhythmic grouping), tremolos, (nested) tuplets in arbitrary ratios, and more.
LilyPond’s text-based music input language support can integrate into LaTeX, HTML and Texinfo seamlessly, allowing single sheet music or musicological treatises to be written from a single source. Form and content are separate, and with LilyPond’s expert automated formatting, users don’t need typographical expertise to produce good notation.
LilyPond produces PDF, PostScript, SVG, or TeX printed output, as well as MIDI for listening pleasures. LilyPond is exported from the RoseGarden and NoteEdit GUIs, and can import ABC, ETF and MIDI.
LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
There are three methods to install lilypond 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install lilypond using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lilypondInstall lilypond Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install lilypond using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lilypondInstall lilypond 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install lilypond using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lilypondHow To Uninstall lilypond on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lilypond package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lilypondUninstall lilypond And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lilypond and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lilypondRemove lilypond Configurations and Data
To remove lilypond configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lilypondRemove lilypond configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lilypond configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lilypondDependencies
lilypond have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lilypond package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.