musescore 0.9.6.3 for lucid?

For 0.9.6.2 (stable)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mscore-ubuntu/mscore-stable; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade

For 0.9.7b (unstable)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mscore-ubuntu/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Thanks

Probably not. Ubuntu backports exists for this kind of thing, but its pretty dead.

However, all is not lost if you *really* need it. However, it is quite tricky, so you may not want to do this anyway, and just live with the earlier version.

Basically, you can rebuild the package under lucid yourself from the maverick package.

here are some instructions on how to do this (in general).

http://www.moosechips.com/2008/09/ubuntu-rebuild-a-source-package/

with luck, this might just work out-of-the box if instead of installing the source package from lucid, you download it by hand:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/musescore/0.9.6.3+dfsg-0ubuntu2

to do this (from the above link):

save the .orig.tar.gz to a folder, the extract the contents "musescore-0.9.6.3" as a new folder somewhere.

download the .diff.gz file to the parent folder (ie above musescore-0.9.6.3) and use file-roller to extract the .diff file to the same folder.

run this command

patch -p1 < ../musescore_0.9.6.3+dfsg-0ubuntu2.diff

this will update the package with the changes needed to build it for ubuntu.

Now build the package as listed on the moosechips website (above)

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

this will build you a .deb, and you can install that.

if you do try this -- good luck!

well, actionparsnip's reply is more awesome. Use that :) I was unaware that there was a PPA for this :)

I use websearches (mainly bing and google) to find stuff ;)

hey thanks! I would try build the source... I'm composer and really love this soft. I need to stay in the LTS version to develop some pieces which take me more than 6 months. :S