How To Install qsynth on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qsynth on Fedora 34.
What is qsynth
QSynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth. FluidSynth is a command line software synthesizer based on the Soundfont specification.
We can use yum or dnf to install qsynth on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qsynth.
Install qsynth 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 qsynth using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qsynth
Install qsynth 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 qsynth using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qsynth
How To Uninstall qsynth on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the qsynth package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qsynth
qsynth Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/qsynth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/501e1c32aa1a21c5c8b3acaad251123506e0b0
/usr/share/applications/qsynth.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qsynth
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/README
/usr/share/doc/qsynth/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qsynth.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qsynth.svg
/usr/share/licenses/qsynth
/usr/share/licenses/qsynth/COPYING
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/qsynth.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qsynth.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/qsynth.appdata.xml
/usr/share/qsynth
/usr/share/qsynth/translations
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_cs.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_de.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_es.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_fr.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_ru.qm
/usr/share/qsynth/translations/qsynth_sr.qm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qsynth on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
