panta rei
October 10th, 2007, 06:57 PM
Hi!
There is a development of a great piece of software for music composition / score editing called Musescore: http://mscore.sourceforge.net
When matured, it can be a serious Linux-native competitor to commercial software like Finale or Sibelius. The program's UI and basic functionality looks quite similar to Sibelius, which is in my opinion a cool idea because this is exactly what many musicians among Linux users miss. As far as I know Musescore is the best option for WYSIWYG score editing in Linux (at least for me) altough it is still in early stage.
The authors seem to keep working on it and brought it to version 0.7 few weeks ago. The software is already quite usable but I haven't found it in any repositories for Ubuntu (or Ubuntu Studio). The packages already exist for some other distributions. In Ubuntu, users are required to compile it from sources which is a pain in the neck for many of them since most of the musicans are probably not programmers... (including me - altough I have some basic programming skills already since 8-bit computers era :) ) People are reporting errors when compiling and often end up stuck without having the software working properly.
Well, so my qestion is: Is there a repository from which Musescore can be installed in Ubuntu?
It would be nice to have it in one of the common Ubuntu repositories so that people can install and update it without any hassle!
Any comments welcome!
There is a development of a great piece of software for music composition / score editing called Musescore: http://mscore.sourceforge.net
When matured, it can be a serious Linux-native competitor to commercial software like Finale or Sibelius. The program's UI and basic functionality looks quite similar to Sibelius, which is in my opinion a cool idea because this is exactly what many musicians among Linux users miss. As far as I know Musescore is the best option for WYSIWYG score editing in Linux (at least for me) altough it is still in early stage.
The authors seem to keep working on it and brought it to version 0.7 few weeks ago. The software is already quite usable but I haven't found it in any repositories for Ubuntu (or Ubuntu Studio). The packages already exist for some other distributions. In Ubuntu, users are required to compile it from sources which is a pain in the neck for many of them since most of the musicans are probably not programmers... (including me - altough I have some basic programming skills already since 8-bit computers era :) ) People are reporting errors when compiling and often end up stuck without having the software working properly.
Well, so my qestion is: Is there a repository from which Musescore can be installed in Ubuntu?
It would be nice to have it in one of the common Ubuntu repositories so that people can install and update it without any hassle!
Any comments welcome!