How To Install kmetronome on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmetronome on Fedora 34.
What is kmetronome
KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with Qt5 interface, based on the Drumstick library. The intended audience is musicians and music students. Like solid, real metronomes it is a tool to keep the rhythm while playing musical instruments. It uses MIDI for sound generation instead of digital audio, allowing low CPU usage, and very accurate timing thanks to the ALSA sequencer.
We can use yum or dnf to install kmetronome on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kmetronome.
Install kmetronome 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 kmetronome using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kmetronome
Install kmetronome 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 kmetronome using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kmetronome
How To Uninstall kmetronome on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the kmetronome package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kmetronome
kmetronome Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/kmetronome
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/3ebfb922cc75c68a5648add8e70e688297c5d0
/usr/share/applications/kmetronome.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/net.sourceforge.kmetronome.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/net.sourceforge.kmetronome.service
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/README
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/TODO
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/kmetronome.html
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/kmetronome_1.png
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/kmetronome_2.png
/usr/share/doc/kmetronome/kmetronome_3.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kmetronome.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kmetronome.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/kmetronome.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kmetronome.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kmetronome.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kmetronome.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/kmetronome.svgz
/usr/share/kmetronome
/usr/share/kmetronome/drums.ins
/usr/share/kmetronome/samples.pat
/usr/share/kmetronome/translations
/usr/share/kmetronome/translations/kmetronome_cs.qm
/usr/share/kmetronome/translations/kmetronome_de.qm
/usr/share/kmetronome/translations/kmetronome_es.qm
/usr/share/kmetronome/translations/kmetronome_fr.qm
/usr/share/kmetronome/translations/kmetronome_tr.qm
/usr/share/man/man1/kmetronome.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmetronome on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.