How To Install fluid-soundfont-gs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fluid-soundfont-gs on CentOS 8.
What is fluid-soundfont-gs
FluidR3 is the third release of Frank Wen’s pro-quality GM/GS soundfont. The soundfont has lots of excellent samples, including all the GM instruments along side with the GS instruments that are recycled and reprogrammed versions of the GM presets. This package contains instruments belonging to General Midi’s General Standard (GS) Extension in soundfont 2.0 (.sf2) format.
We can use yum or dnf to install fluid-soundfont-gs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fluid-soundfont-gs.
Install fluid-soundfont-gs 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 fluid-soundfont-gs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fluid-soundfont-gs
Install fluid-soundfont-gs 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 fluid-soundfont-gs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fluid-soundfont-gs
How To Uninstall fluid-soundfont-gs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fluid-soundfont-gs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fluid-soundfont-gs
fluid-soundfont-gs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GS.sf2
/usr/share/soundfonts/fluid3gs.cfg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fluid-soundfont-gs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.