How To Install qsynth on CentOS 8

qsynth is Qt based Fluidsynth GUI front end

Introduction

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

What is qsynth

QSynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth. FluidSynth is a command line software synthesizer based on the Soundfont specification.

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

Install qsynth 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 qsynth using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qsynth

Install qsynth 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 qsynth using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qsynth

How To Uninstall qsynth on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove qsynth

qsynth Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/qsynth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/bc0fba95d783f85e4f271beb30dcc54bda740c
/usr/share/applications/qsynth.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qsynth
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/README
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qsynth.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qsynth.svg
/usr/share/licenses/qsynth
/usr/share/licenses/qsynth/COPYING
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/qsynth.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qsynth.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/qsynth.appdata.xml
/usr/share/qsynth
/usr/share/qsynth/translations
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_cs.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_de.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_es.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_fr.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_ru.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_sr.qm

References

Summary

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