How To Install kmid2 on Fedora 34

kmid2 is A MIDI/karaoke player for KDE

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmid2 on Fedora 34.

What is kmid2

KMid2 is a MIDI/karaoke file player, with configurable midi mapper, real Session Management, drag & drop, customizable fonts, etc. It has a very nice interface which let you easily follow the tune while changing the color of the lyrics. It supports output through external synthesizers, AWE, FM and GUS cards. It also has a keyboard view to see the notes played by each instrument.

We can use yum or dnf to install kmid2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kmid2.

Install kmid2 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 kmid2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kmid2

Install kmid2 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 kmid2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kmid2

How To Uninstall kmid2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the kmid2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kmid2

kmid2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/kmid
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/8454ca5f71a9e2652505e17c7624b2746e0b69
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/631e40f3d7da49ef26d09dc97631bce0fba428
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/3a0202c0c8e3d861cfbc5e29790dc39ac0986f
/usr/lib64/kde4/kmid_alsa.so
/usr/lib64/kde4/kmid_part.so
/usr/share/applications/kde4/kmid.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/kmid.kcfg
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.KMid.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.KMidPart.xml
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kmid
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kmid/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kmid/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kmid/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kmid
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kmid/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kmid/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kmid/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kmid
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kmid/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kmid/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kmid/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kmid
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kmid/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kmid/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kmid/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kmid
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kmid/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kmid/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kmid/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/kmid2
/usr/share/doc/kmid2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/kmid2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/kmid2/README
/usr/share/doc/kmid2/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kmid.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kmid.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/kmid.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kmid.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kmid.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kmid.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/kmid.svgz
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/YamahaPSR500.map
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/YamahaPSS790.map
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/YamahaQY10.map
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/gm.map
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/haendel_hallelujah.mid
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/kmidui.rc
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/lindaamiga.mid
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/mozart_aveverum.mid
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/mozart_diesirae.mid
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/mozart_konigdernacht.mid
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/schubert_avemaria.mid
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid/twinkle.kar
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid_part
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kmid_part/kmid_part.rc
/usr/share/kde4/services/kmid_alsa.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/kmid_part.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/servicetypes/kmid_backend.desktop
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ijekavian/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ijekavianlatin/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kmid.mo

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmid2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.