How To Install portmidi on CentOS 8

portmidi is Real-time Midi I/O Library

Introduction

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

What is `portmidi`

PortMedia is a set of simple clean APIs and cross-platform library implementations for music and other media. PortMidi sub-project provides a real-time MIDI input/output library. This package contains the PortMidi libraries.

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

Install portmidi 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 portmidi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install portmidi

Install portmidi 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 portmidi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install portmidi

How To Uninstall portmidi on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove portmidi

portmidi Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/aa675af440412f63db61f337e3e70b42c4c315
/usr/lib64/libportmidi.so.0
/usr/lib64/libportmidi.so.0.217
/usr/share/doc/portmidi
/usr/share/doc/portmidi/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/licenses/portmidi
/usr/share/licenses/portmidi/license.txt

References

portmidi website

Summary

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