How To Install libwildmidi-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libwildmidi-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libwildmidi-dev is software MIDI player library headers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwildmidi-dev on Debian 10.

What is libwildmidi-dev

libwildmidi-dev is:

MIDI streaming library designed to process a MIDI file using sound patches and stream the results as stereo audio data through a buffer which an external program can then process further.

This package contains the development headers, static library and symlinks to libWildMidi.so.1

There are three methods to install libwildmidi-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libwildmidi-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libwildmidi-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libwildmidi-dev

Install libwildmidi-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libwildmidi-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libwildmidi-dev

Install libwildmidi-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libwildmidi-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libwildmidi-dev

How To Uninstall libwildmidi-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libwildmidi-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libwildmidi-dev

Uninstall libwildmidi-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libwildmidi-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwildmidi-dev

Remove libwildmidi-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libwildmidi-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libwildmidi-dev

Remove libwildmidi-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libwildmidi-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwildmidi-dev

Dependencies

libwildmidi-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwildmidi-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.