Musescore 2.0.2 Installation in Debian 8 (jessie) 32 bit (unmet dependencies error)

• Feb 15, 2016 - 21:10

I am trying to install MuseScore on a Debian 8 computer. I followed the instructions on the install page to add the Launchpad repository to /etc/apt/sources.list with:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/mscore-stable/ubuntu/ trusty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/mscore-stable/ubuntu/ trusty main

After updating the package lists, I tried to install MuseScore using apt-get install musescore. I got this error:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
musescore : Depends: libpulse0 (>= 1:0.99.1) but 5.0-13 is to be installed
Depends: qtbase-abi-5-3-0

libpulse0 is already installed on my system, and qtbase-abi-5-3-0 is a virtual package. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Comments

Bonteruel

• Apr 30, 2016 - 18:03

I've just figured out how to install musescore 2.0.2 in debian jessie stable. You need to use the jessie backports repository.
Add this lines to your source.list:
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
#apt update
#apt-get -t jessie-backports install musescore
and voilá. You get it. I tried with another mirrors but for some reason the package didn't appear,so use http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ to be sure it will be found.

Scott D. Milner

• Apr 30, 2016 - 21:22

Thanks for your response. The new AppImage packages for MuseScore 2.0.3 work fine on Debian, though, so I don't have to worry about it anymore.

José Jiménez1

• Jan 18, 2018 - 21:41

Thank you very much for your help.
I thought I could not install musescore and I had to change distribution. Solved;)

mirabilos

• Mar 13, 2019 - 18:36

You can even get 2.3.2 if you use jessie-backports-sloppy ☻

For newer Debian releases:
Please see https://musescore.org/en/node/281650#comment-903139 for information on current Debian and Ubuntu packages. (Once Debian 10 “buster” will have been released, the Debian part of said information will be updated accordingly. We expect it in a small number of weeks.)

Bonteruel

• Mar 31, 2018 - 02:07

For debian stretch,just change jessie-backports for stretch-backports in the sources.list and the installation command,just as in my previous message. For spanish lyrics with accents like áéíóú is mandatory: the appimage version have issues with that.

Bonteruel

• Mar 31, 2018 - 15:10

in terminal,
$ su -

leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this lines to enable backports repository
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free

apt update

apt -t stretch-backports install musescore

backports version support accent, appimage version not.

Bonteruel

• Mar 1, 2020 - 22:39

In debian buster, just change where is written stretch and replace with buster,
for example:
apt -t buster-backports install musescore3