How To Install mikmod on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mikmod on Fedora 34.
What is mikmod
MikMod is one of the best and most well known MOD music file players for UNIX-like systems. This particular distribution is intended to compile fairly painlessly in a Linux environment. MikMod uses the OSS /dev/dsp driver including all recent kernels for output, and will also write .wav files. Supported file formats include MOD, STM, S3M, MTM, XM, ULT, and IT. The player uses ncurses for console output and supports transparent loading from gzip/pkzip/zoo archives and the loading/saving of playlists. Install the mikmod package if you need a MOD music file player.
We can use yum or dnf to install mikmod on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mikmod.
Install mikmod 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 mikmod using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mikmod
Install mikmod 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 mikmod using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mikmod
How To Uninstall mikmod on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mikmod package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mikmod
mikmod Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/mikmod
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/c189631dc6ea406aad34c0dc96174154ecc214
/usr/share/doc/mikmod
/usr/share/doc/mikmod/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mikmod/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mikmod/README
/usr/share/licenses/mikmod
/usr/share/licenses/mikmod/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mikmod.1.gz
/usr/share/mikmod
/usr/share/mikmod/mikmodrc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mikmod on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
