How To Install soundfont-utils on CentOS 8

soundfont-utils is Utilities for converting from / to various soundfont formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install soundfont-utils on CentOS 8.

What is soundfont-utils

Utilities for converting from / to various soundfont formats and a midi file disassembler.

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

Install soundfont-utils 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 soundfont-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install soundfont-utils

Install soundfont-utils 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 soundfont-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install soundfont-utils

How To Uninstall soundfont-utils on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the soundfont-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove soundfont-utils

soundfont-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/midi-disasm
/usr/bin/patcat
/usr/bin/patinfo
/usr/bin/sf2cfg
/usr/bin/sfz2pat
/usr/bin/unsf
/usr/bin/wav2pat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/8134639af4191f7c8d922b804429685e50089b
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/111fd8708a16c6c80834df8327828b3c64cad7
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/a750bbffe45aca7908231991dadb225a6f41be
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/e5f402a51ba1288c8ab15508764068ae001464
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/49ee8f5fff68dbec56a6dc8f4daadd7b67470e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/22e05f63bb647224aaeb37624001a8c3307fff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/bb95218ec703a58fdc3d75a22aefa5e60b5236
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/a3ddc0e29070c45b46f17e8b098efbbeb3ded9
/usr/share/doc/soundfont-utils
/usr/share/doc/soundfont-utils/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/soundfont-utils/GUSSF2-SPEC
/usr/share/doc/soundfont-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/soundfont-utils/README.sf2cfg
/usr/share/man/man1/midi-disasm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/patcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sf2cfg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sfz2pat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unsf.1.gz

References

Summary

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