How To Install pianobooster on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pianobooster
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pianobooster
pianobooster is:
A MIDI file player/game that displays the musical notes AND teaches you how to play the piano.
PianoBooster is a fun way of playing along with a musical accompaniment and at the same time learning the basics of reading musical notation. The difference between playing along to a CD or a standard MIDI file is that PianoBooster listens and reacts to what you are playing on a MIDI keyboard.
To run Piano Booster you need a MIDI Piano Keyboard and a MIDI interface for the PC. If you don’t have a MIDI keyboard you can still try out PianoBooster, using the PC keyboard (‘x’ is middle C), but a MIDI piano is really recommended.
There are three methods to install pianobooster
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pianobooster Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pianobooster
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pianobooster
Install pianobooster Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pianobooster
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pianobooster
Install pianobooster 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pianobooster
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pianobooster
How To Uninstall pianobooster on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pianobooster
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pianobooster
Uninstall pianobooster And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pianobooster
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pianobooster
Remove pianobooster Configurations and Data
To remove pianobooster
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pianobooster
Remove pianobooster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pianobooster
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pianobooster
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pianobooster
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.