How To Install abcMIDI on CentOS 8

abcMIDI is ABC to/from MIDI conversion utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8.

What is abcMIDI

The abcMIDI package contains four programs music notation to MIDI, midi2abc to convert MIDI files to (a first approximation to) the corresponding ABC, abc2abc to reformat and/or transpose ABC files, and yaps to typeset ABC files as PostScript. For a description of the ABC syntax, please see the ABC userguide which is a part of the abcm2ps. A mirror github repo is at https

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

Install abcMIDI 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 abcMIDI using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abcMIDI

Install abcMIDI 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 abcMIDI using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abcMIDI

How To Uninstall abcMIDI on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the abcMIDI package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abcMIDI

abcMIDI Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/abc2abc
/usr/bin/abc2midi
/usr/bin/abcmatch
/usr/bin/mftext
/usr/bin/midi2abc
/usr/bin/midicopy
/usr/bin/yaps
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/22abf29cc97191b8936e91cc70cfde42a94935
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/8ebb809b6683a9858892aaebf903b17f8a29bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/0faf69a4f4f52ed233af55576646ab98661889
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/567d486d852f38e0313703cde9f3912258689e
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/b59b0c6d98156e0d211b0374801bda0aff5897
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/e4400aeadfc05d6e23437a314b7b1c5c11cdd2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/687c09d79f1944f242327f3a6cd3ab56ff35e9
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/abcguide.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/abcmatch.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/history.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/midi2abc-stats.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/abc2midi.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/coding.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Entries
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Repository
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Root
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/midi2abc.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/split.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/yaps.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/yapshelp.txt
/usr/share/licenses/abcMIDI
/usr/share/licenses/abcMIDI/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/abc2abc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abc2midi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mftext.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/midi2abc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/midicopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yaps.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.