How To Install fluidsynth-devel on CentOS 8

fluidsynth-devel is Real-time software synthesizer development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fluidsynth-devel on CentOS 8.

What is fluidsynth-devel

FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. It is a “software synthesizer”. This package holds header files for building programs that link against fluidsynth.

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

Install fluidsynth-devel 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 fluidsynth-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fluidsynth-devel

Install fluidsynth-devel 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 fluidsynth-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fluidsynth-devel

How To Uninstall fluidsynth-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fluidsynth-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fluidsynth-devel

fluidsynth-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/fluidsynth
/usr/include/fluidsynth.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/audio.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/event.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/gen.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/ladspa.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/log.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/midi.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/misc.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/mod.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/seq.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/seqbind.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/settings.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/sfont.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/shell.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/synth.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/types.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/version.h
/usr/include/fluidsynth/voice.h
/usr/lib64/libfluidsynth.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/fluidsynth.pc
/usr/share/doc/fluidsynth-devel
/usr/share/doc/fluidsynth-devel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fluidsynth-devel/FluidSynth Thread safety paper for LAC 2011.odt
/usr/share/doc/fluidsynth-devel/example.c
/usr/share/doc/fluidsynth-devel/fluidsynth-v20-devdoc.txt
/usr/share/doc/fluidsynth-devel/fluidsynth_arpeggio.c
/usr/share/doc/fluidsynth-devel/fluidsynth_fx.c
/usr/share/doc/fluidsynth-devel/fluidsynth_metronome.c
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References

Summary

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