How to Download and Install MuseScore 3.0.4 on Ubuntu

MuseScore is a free and open source software for creating, playing and printing beautiful sheet music on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Being an open source it doesn’t mean that it is not a powerful and easy to use, it is… MuseScore support to write music notes for different music instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Orchestra, Jazz, Choir, Band, Marching, and much more… Here is the link to see the list of all instruments supported by the latest version of MuseScore -3.0.4… Link to list of instruments.

Here we show how to install the MuseScore on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Debian, Linux Mint, Elementary or other Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems…

Steps to Download and Install MuseScore 3.0.4 on Ubuntu

Log on to your Ubuntu Operating system.
Find the Command Terminal and open it or use the shortcut CTRL+ALT+T
Now add the PPA repo for download and installing the MusicScore 3.0 on Ubuntu. The command is: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mscore-ubuntu/mscore3-stable
After installing PPA update your Ubuntu System. For this purpose use this command on terminal: sudo apt update
Finally, type command sudo apt-get install musescore3 to install the MuseScore 3 latest version on Ubuntu.
Open the Ubuntu Applications and click on the MuseScroe icon.
Finally, Start creating favourite music notes on Ubuntu Linux.

Setup MuseScore 3

Choose your language and click on NEXT button.

Select the Keyboard Layout, if you are using international one then leave the option as it is but click on NEXT button.

It offers two workspaces for creating music notes sheet: Basic and Advanced. Select the Basic option and click on NEXT button.

Note: You can change the Workspace later from the main interface of the MuseScore.

If you want to know about the MuseScore 3 then select mark tour option to YES and hit NEXT.

Finally, it installed and now we can use to create music sheets…

The output of the above installation command:

[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install musescore3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgovirt-common libgovirt2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libdouble-conversion1 libpoppler-qt5-1 libportaudio2 libportmidi0
libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5help5 libqt5network5
libqt5printsupport5 libqt5qml5 libqt5quick5 libqt5sql5
libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5
libqt5xmlpatterns5 libxcb-xinerama0 musescore-general-soundfont
musescore3-common qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects
qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-dialogs
qml-module-qtquick-layouts qml-module-qtquick-privatewidgets
qml-module-qtquick-window2 qml-module-qtquick2 qt5-gtk-platformtheme
qttranslations5-l10n
Suggested packages:
qt5-image-formats-plugins qtwayland5 qt5-qmltooling-plugins
fluid-soundfont-gm timgm6mb-soundfont
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdouble-conversion1 libpoppler-qt5-1 libportaudio2 libportmidi0
libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5help5 libqt5network5
libqt5printsupport5 libqt5qml5 libqt5quick5 libqt5sql5
libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5
libqt5xmlpatterns5 libxcb-xinerama0 musescore-general-soundfont
musescore3 musescore3-common qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects
qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-dialogs
qml-module-qtquick-layouts qml-module-qtquick-privatewidgets
qml-module-qtquick-window2 qml-module-qtquick2 qt5-gtk-platformtheme
qttranslations5-l10n
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