{"id":7642,"date":"2018-04-08T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2018-04-08T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T15:07:16","slug":"how-to-install-musescore-2-2-1-in-ubuntu-18-0416-04-via-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/how-to-install-musescore-2-2-1-in-ubuntu-18-0416-04-via-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install MuseScore 2.2.1 in Ubuntu 18.04\/16.04 via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/musescore-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6757\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Free and open-source scorewriter MuseScore 2.2.1 was released a few days ago. Now it&#8217;s available in the <b>PPA<\/b> repository for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04.<\/p>\n<p>MuseScore has an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~mscore-ubuntu\/+archive\/ubuntu\/mscore-stable\" target=\"_blank\">stable PPA<\/a> repository, which was not updated for almost a year due to outdated dependency libraries in Ubuntu 16.04 since version 2.1.0. Now the PPA is active again with the latest 2.2.1 packages for all current Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore221.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore221-600x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore221-600x331.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore221-450x248.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore221-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore221.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To add the PPA, open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from app launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mscore-ubuntu\/mscore-stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore-ppa-600x80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore-ppa-600x80.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore-ppa-450x60.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/musescore-ppa.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade MuseScore from an existing release via <b>Software Updater<\/b> (Update Manager):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-musescore-450x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-musescore-450x296.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-musescore-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/upgrade-musescore.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or simply run commands one by one in terminal to install or upgrade the scorewriter:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install musescore<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall MuseScore:<\/h4>\n<p>To uninstall the software, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove musescore<\/pre>\n<p>And you can remove PPA repositories by launching <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> and navigating to &#8220;Other Software&#8221; tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free and open-source scorewriter MuseScore 2.2.1 was released a few days ago. Now it&#8217;s available in the PPA repository for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04. MuseScore has an stable PPA repository, which was not updated for almost a year due to outdated dependency libraries in Ubuntu 16.04 since version 2.1.0. Now the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1256,1257],"class_list":["post-7642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-free-music-score","tag-musescore"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}