How To Install Power Tab Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Power Tab Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Power Tab Editor is a music notation software specialized in creating guitar and bass tablatures, as well as sheet music with detailed playback capabilities. Musicians find it beneficial due to its user-friendly interface and ability to share musical compositions.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Power Tab Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
Prerequisites
- A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
- It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
- SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
- An active internet connection. You’ll need an internet connection to download the necessary packages and dependencies for Power Tab Editor.
- A
non-root sudo useror access to theroot user. We recommend acting as anon-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.
Install Power Tab Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt commands in the terminal.
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Step 2. Installing Power Tab Editor on Ubuntu 22.04.
- Method 1. Install Power Tab Editor using Snap √
By default, Bottles is not available on the Ubuntu 22.04 base repository. Now run the following command below to install Snap to your Ubuntu system:
sudo apt install snapd sudo apt install core
Once you have Snap installed in your system, then you can write the below command to install this software:
sudo snap install powertabeditor
- Method 2. Install Power Tab Editor using Flatpak √
Flatpak is a universal packaging system that allows you to install applications across different Linux distributions. You can install Flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using the following command:
sudo apt install flatpak
After installing Flatpak, you need to add the Flathub repository to your system using the following command:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Verify Flatpak installation:
flatpak – version
Once Flatpak is installed on your system, you can install Power Tab Editor using the following command:
flatpak install powertabeditor
For additional resources on installing Flatpak, read the post below:
Step 3. Accessing Power Tab Editor on Ubuntu 22.04.
Once you have successfully installed Power Tab Editor on your Ubuntu 22.04 system, you can open Power Tab Editor by searching for it in the Ubuntu application menu or by running the following command in the terminal:
powertab
Alternatively, Flatpak users must launch using the command below from a terminal instance:
flatpak run <application-id>
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Power Tab Editor. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Power Tab Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Power Tab Editor website.
