How To Install timidity-daemon on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install timidity-daemon
on Debian 11.
What is timidity-daemon
timidity-daemon is:
TiMidity++ is a very high quality software-only MIDI sequencer and MOD player.
This package is not needed for a desktop install and output by default using the ALSA driver.
This package provides TiMidity++ as a system-wide MIDI sequencer.
There are three methods to install timidity-daemon
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install timidity-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install timidity-daemon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install timidity-daemon
Install timidity-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install timidity-daemon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install timidity-daemon
Install timidity-daemon 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 timidity-daemon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install timidity-daemon
How To Uninstall timidity-daemon on Debian 11
To uninstall only the timidity-daemon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove timidity-daemon
Uninstall timidity-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall timidity-daemon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove timidity-daemon
Remove timidity-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove timidity-daemon
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge timidity-daemon
Remove timidity-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove timidity-daemon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge timidity-daemon
Dependencies
timidity-daemon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install timidity-daemon
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.