How To Install tinyeartrainer on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tinyeartrainer on Ubuntu 18.04. tinyeartrainer is A tool to learn recognizing musical intervals

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tinyeartrainer on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is tinyeartrainer

tinyeartrainer is:

Tiny Ear Trainer is a tiny piece of software that helps you to recognize musical intervals.

Implemented features include associating colors to intervals and learning mode which plays interval together with color and name. Harmonic and melodic intervals are supported. It uses fluidsynth/soundfonts for playback. You may want to know that GNU Solfege is a far more powerful alternative to Tiny Ear Trainer.

Tiny Ear Trainer works with JACK Audio Connection Kit.

There are three methods to install tinyeartrainer 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 tinyeartrainer Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tinyeartrainer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tinyeartrainer

Install tinyeartrainer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tinyeartrainer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tinyeartrainer

Install tinyeartrainer 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 tinyeartrainer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tinyeartrainer

How To Uninstall tinyeartrainer on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the tinyeartrainer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tinyeartrainer

Uninstall tinyeartrainer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tinyeartrainer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tinyeartrainer

Remove tinyeartrainer Configurations and Data

To remove tinyeartrainer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tinyeartrainer

Remove tinyeartrainer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tinyeartrainer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tinyeartrainer

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tinyeartrainer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.