Jan 29, 2010
Guitar Pro alternative in Ubuntu
I am a big guitar freak. I play guitar all the time. A good friend for guitar learners is Guitar Pro on windows. Guitar pro is basically a tool which shows musical notations, plays them, show the notation on guitar tabs, change tempo etc. It helps beginners a lot.
Today, I felt the need to use it again, but I didn’t want to logon to windows for doing that. I knew there had to be an alternative in Ubuntu (Geeks play guitar too
). Fortunately, I found two packages in repos which could work similar and better than guitar pro. Best of all, they are free.
To install them, type the following in terminal:
For tuxguitar:
$ sudo apt-get install tuxguitar
For kguitar (It is for Kubuntu/KDE users):
$ sudo apt-get install kguitar
I found tuxguitar to be more feature-rich and bug free. Try ‘em both to see what suits you.
Cheers!

Thanx bro for posting.I am gonna have this.
Are they compatible with GP files? Because if they are not, a major utility of Guitar Pro goes moot — viewing the popular tabs/notations.
Lemme check out. Just hope that I don’t have to install extra GUI libraries; at least for that “tuxguitar”.
Yep, they absolutely are compatible with GP3/4/5 files. I’ve tested them myself. For me, kguitar didn’t work with those files. Tuxguitar worked good.