How To Install chordii on Fedora 34

chordii is Print songbooks (lyrics + chords)

Introduction

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

What is `chordii`

chordii provides guitar players and other musicians with a tool to produce good looking, self-descriptive music sheets from text files. chordii reads text files in ChordPro format, containing the lyrics of songs, the chords to be played, their descriptions and some other optional data. It produces a PostScript document suitable for viewing and printing. chordii features include - centered titles, - chord names above the words, - chord diagrams at the end of the songs, - multiple columns on a page, - multiple logical pages per physical pages (1, 2 or 4), - configurable fonts and sizes, - the complete ISO 8859-1 character set, - optionally, ISO 8859-2 character set, - chorus marking, - automated chord transposition, - songbook creation table of contents. For details on the ChordPro format, see http

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

Install chordii 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 chordii using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chordii

Install chordii 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 chordii using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chordii

How To Uninstall chordii on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove chordii

chordii Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/a2crd
/usr/bin/chordii
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/62fadd9aad458977df2a0856329148a479e2f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/e41d63459c007fd136d7330378aa728b5734aa
/usr/share/doc/chordii
/usr/share/doc/chordii/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/chordii/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/chordii/README
/usr/share/doc/chordii/examples
/usr/share/doc/chordii/examples/everybody-hurts.cho
/usr/share/doc/chordii/examples/love-me-tender.cho
/usr/share/doc/chordii/examples/swing-low.cho
/usr/share/man/man1/a2crd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/chordii.1.gz

References

chordii website

Summary

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