How To Install abcm2ps on Fedora 34

abcm2ps is A program to typeset ABC tunes into Postscript

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcm2ps on Fedora 34.

What is abcm2ps

Abcm2ps is a package which converts music tunes from ABC format to Postscript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print Baroque organ scores which have independent voices played on one or many keyboards and a pedal-board. Abcm2ps introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.

We can use yum or dnf to install abcm2ps on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abcm2ps.

Install abcm2ps on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abcm2ps using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abcm2ps

Install abcm2ps on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abcm2ps using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abcm2ps

How To Uninstall abcm2ps on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the abcm2ps package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abcm2ps

abcm2ps Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/abcm2ps
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/9ad79234444b24a6fd2d484d97e80d8ef9ae54
/usr/share/abcm2ps
/usr/share/abcm2ps/abc2svg.ttf
/usr/share/abcm2ps/flute.fmt
/usr/share/abcm2ps/landscape.fmt
/usr/share/abcm2ps/musicfont.fmt
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/README.md
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/abcplus_en-DRAFT3.pdf
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/accordion.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/bravura.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/chinese.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/deco.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/free.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/glyphs.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/newfeatures.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample2.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample3.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample3.eps
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample4.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample5.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/sample8.html
/usr/share/doc/abcm2ps/examples/voices.abc
/usr/share/licenses/abcm2ps
/usr/share/licenses/abcm2ps/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/abcm2ps.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcm2ps on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.