How To Install game-music-emu on CentOS 8

game-music-emu is Video game music file emulation/playback library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install game-music-emu on CentOS 8.

What is game-music-emu

Game_Music_Emu is a collection of video game music file emulators that support the following formats and systems * AY ZX Spectrum/Amstrad CPC * GBS Nintendo Game Boy * GYM Sega Genesis/Mega Drive * HES NEC TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine * KSS MSX Home Computer/other Z80 systems (doesn’t support FM sound) * NSF/NSFE Nintendo NES/Famicom (with VRC 6, Namco 106, and FME-7 sound) * SAP Atari systems using POKEY sound chip * SPC Super Nintendo/Super Famicom * VGM/VGZ Sega Master System/Mark III, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive,BBC Micro

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

Install game-music-emu 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 game-music-emu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install game-music-emu

Install game-music-emu 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 game-music-emu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install game-music-emu

How To Uninstall game-music-emu on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the game-music-emu package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove game-music-emu

game-music-emu Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/94ab2740d7bae1d4d43785198dfdc9d6c89439
/usr/lib64/libgme.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgme.so.0.6.2
/usr/share/doc/game-music-emu
/usr/share/doc/game-music-emu/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/game-music-emu/readme.txt
/usr/share/licenses/game-music-emu
/usr/share/licenses/game-music-emu/license.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install game-music-emu on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.