How To Install libinstpatch on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinstpatch on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libinstpatch
libInstPatch stands for lib-Instrument-Patch and is a library for processing digital sample based MIDI instrument “patch” files. The types of files libInstPatch supports are used for creating instrument sounds for wavetable synthesis. libInstPatch provides an object framework (based on GObject) to load patch files into, which can then be edited, converted, compressed and saved.
We can use yum or dnf to install libinstpatch on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libinstpatch.
Install libinstpatch on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install libinstpatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libinstpatch
Install libinstpatch on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install libinstpatch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libinstpatch
How To Uninstall libinstpatch on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libinstpatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libinstpatch
libinstpatch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/a56a7fd3c585a31b8330c8d0a845e29693b50f
/usr/lib64/libinstpatch-1.0.so.2
/usr/lib64/libinstpatch-1.0.so.2.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libinstpatch
/usr/share/doc/libinstpatch/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/share/doc/libinstpatch/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libinstpatch/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libinstpatch/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libinstpatch/TODO.tasks
/usr/share/licenses/libinstpatch
/usr/share/licenses/libinstpatch/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinstpatch on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
