How To Install songwrite on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install songwrite on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is songwrite
songwrite is:
Songwrite is a guitar tablature (fingering notation) editor and player, quite similar to TablEdit. In addition to tablatures, it also supports staff, lyrics and drums.
Printing support and playback are available through external programs.
Songwrite was formerly know as GTablature.
There are three methods to install songwrite 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 songwrite Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install songwrite using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install songwrite
Install songwrite Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install songwrite using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install songwrite
Install songwrite 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 songwrite using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install songwrite
How To Uninstall songwrite on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the songwrite package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove songwrite
Uninstall songwrite And Its Dependencies
To uninstall songwrite and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove songwrite
Remove songwrite Configurations and Data
To remove songwrite configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge songwrite
Remove songwrite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove songwrite configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge songwrite
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install songwrite package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
