How To Install rosegarden on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rosegarden on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is rosegarden
rosegarden is:
Rosegarden is a Qt application which provides a mixed Audio/MIDI sequencer (for playback and recording), a multi-track editor, music editing using both piano-roll and score notation, MIDI file IO, lilypond and Csound files export, etc.
There are three methods to install rosegarden on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rosegarden Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rosegarden using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rosegarden
Install rosegarden Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rosegarden using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rosegarden
Install rosegarden 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 rosegarden using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rosegarden
How To Uninstall rosegarden on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the rosegarden package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rosegarden
Uninstall rosegarden And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rosegarden and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rosegarden
Remove rosegarden Configurations and Data
To remove rosegarden configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rosegarden
Remove rosegarden configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rosegarden configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rosegarden
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rosegarden package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
