How To Install fluid-soundfont-gm on CentOS 8

fluid-soundfont-gm is Pro-quality General Midi soundfont

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fluid-soundfont-gm on CentOS 8.

What is fluid-soundfont-gm

FluidR3 is the third release of Frank Wen’s pro-quality GM/GS soundfont. The soundfont has lots of excellent samples, including all the GM instruments along side with the GS instruments that are recycled and reprogrammed versions of the GM presets. This package contains Fluid General Midi (GM) soundfont in soundfont 2.0 (.sf2) format.

We can use yum or dnf to install fluid-soundfont-gm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fluid-soundfont-gm.

Install fluid-soundfont-gm on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install fluid-soundfont-gm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fluid-soundfont-gm

Install fluid-soundfont-gm on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install fluid-soundfont-gm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fluid-soundfont-gm

How To Uninstall fluid-soundfont-gm on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fluid-soundfont-gm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fluid-soundfont-gm

fluid-soundfont-gm Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/timidity++.cfg
/usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM.sf2
/usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2
/usr/share/soundfonts/fluid3gm.cfg
/usr/share/soundfonts/fluid_altassign.cfg
/usr/share/sounds/sf2
/usr/share/sounds/sf2/default.sf2

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fluid-soundfont-gm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.