How To Install portmidi on Fedora 34

portmidi is Real-time Midi I/O Library Real-time Midi I/O Library

Introduction

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

What is `portmidi`

PortMedia is a set of simple clean APIs and cross-platform library implementations for music and other media. PortMidi sub-project provides a real-time MIDI input/output library. This package contains the PortMidi libraries. portmidi 217 39.fc34 x86_64 31 k portmidi-217-39.fc34.src.rpm fedora Real-time Midi I/O Library http MIT PortMedia is a set of simple clean APIs and cross-platform library implementations for music and other media. PortMidi sub-project provides a real-time MIDI input/output library. This package contains the PortMidi libraries.

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

Install portmidi 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 portmidi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install portmidi

Install portmidi 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 portmidi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install portmidi

How To Uninstall portmidi on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove portmidi

portmidi Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/aa61784893cc691e6093b53777071e9d4344ff
/usr/lib/libportmidi.so.0
/usr/lib/libportmidi.so.0.217
/usr/share/doc/portmidi
/usr/share/doc/portmidi/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/licenses/portmidi
/usr/share/licenses/portmidi/license.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/3e778dcb9632417128c544708d41b10c231b23
/usr/lib64/libportmidi.so.0
/usr/lib64/libportmidi.so.0.217
/usr/share/doc/portmidi
/usr/share/doc/portmidi/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/licenses/portmidi
/usr/share/licenses/portmidi/license.txt

References

[portmidi website](http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/ http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/)

Summary

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