How to Install Musescore on Debian 8.3

How to Install Musescore on Debian 8.3

Musescore is a free scorewriter for Windows, MacOS and Linux supporting a wide variety of file formats and input methods. It is a WYSISYG environment in which musical scores can be created. This article will explain on how to install Musescore on Debian 8.3

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, open the sources.list file using the nano command.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Now add these lines at end of the configuration file. After adding the lines save and exit from the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

Next update the target system by using the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease          
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                 
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,776 kB]
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                                        
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]          
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,408 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]    
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]  
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                 
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:13 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release [148 kB] 
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Reading package lists... Done

Now install the Musescore package by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install musescore
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libqt4-designer libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-svg
  libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtscript4-core libqtscript4-gui libqtscript4-network
  libqtscript4-uitools libqtscript4-xml libqtwebkit4 musescore-common musescore-soundfont-gm
Suggested packages:
  fluid-soundfont-gm fluidsynth timidity
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libqt4-designer libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-svg
  libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtscript4-core libqtscript4-gui libqtscript4-network
  libqtscript4-uitools libqtscript4-xml libqtwebkit4 musescore musescore-common
  musescore-soundfont-gm
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 264 not upgraded.
Need to get 31.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 109 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up musescore (1.3+dfsg1-0.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...

Once the package has been installed, click the Activities window and type the Musescore package in the search bar and run the application.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Musescore can import MusicXML, MIDI, Guitar Pro, Capella, etc.