How To Install abcm2ps on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install abcm2ps on CentOS 8.
What is abcm2ps
Abcm2ps is a package which converts music tunes from ABC format to Postscript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print Baroque organ scores which have independent voices played on one or many keyboards and a pedal-board. Abcm2ps introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
We can use yum or dnf to install abcm2ps on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abcm2ps.
Install abcm2ps 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 abcm2ps using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install abcm2ps
Install abcm2ps 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 abcm2ps using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install abcm2ps
How To Uninstall abcm2ps on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the abcm2ps package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove abcm2ps
abcm2ps Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/abcm2ps
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/9c4b1dff7be3bec42cee4d4af0950b6273781e
/usr/share/abcm2ps
/usr/share/abcm2ps/abc2svg.ttf
/usr/share/abcm2ps/flute.fmt
/usr/share/abcm2ps/landscape.fmt
/usr/share/abcm2ps/musicfont.fmt
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/README.md
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/abcplus_en-DRAFT3.pdf
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/accordion.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/bravura.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/chinese.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/deco.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/free.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/glyphs.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/newfeatures.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample2.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample3.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample3.eps
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample4.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample5.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample8.html
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/voices.abc
/usr/share/licenses/abcm2ps
/usr/share/licenses/abcm2ps/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/abcm2ps.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install abcm2ps on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.