How To Install wildmidi-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wildmidi-libs on CentOS 8.
What is wildmidi-libs
This package contains the WildMidi core softsynth library. The library is designed to process a midi file and stream out the stereo audio data through a buffer which an external program can then process further.
We can use yum or dnf to install wildmidi-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wildmidi-libs.
Install wildmidi-libs 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 wildmidi-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wildmidi-libs
Install wildmidi-libs 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 wildmidi-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wildmidi-libs
How To Uninstall wildmidi-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wildmidi-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wildmidi-libs
wildmidi-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/490893ac3a5638bb83dd4bec7328da998ff7aa
/usr/lib64/libWildMidi.so.2
/usr/lib64/libWildMidi.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/licenses/wildmidi-libs
/usr/share/licenses/wildmidi-libs/LGPLv3.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/wildmidi.cfg.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wildmidi-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.