How To Install qtractor on Fedora 34

qtractor is Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer

Introduction

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

What is qtractor

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. The initial target platform will be Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux Desktop Audio Workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

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

Install qtractor 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 qtractor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qtractor

Install qtractor 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 qtractor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qtractor

How To Uninstall qtractor on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qtractor

qtractor Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qtractor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/d2198cd14f9cee81336917ab36b0ef1752f22d
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/1f4bf6f9edfcf2bc8687f6cc36b29e95c2c446
/usr/lib64/qtractor
/usr/lib64/qtractor/qtractor_plugin_scan
/usr/share/applications/qtractor.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qtractor
/usr/share/doc/qtractor/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/qtractor/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/qtractor/README
/usr/share/doc/qtractor/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qtractor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/application-x-qtractor-archive.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/application-x-qtractor-session.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/application-x-qtractor-template.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qtractor.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/application-x-qtractor-archive.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/application-x-qtractor-session.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/application-x-qtractor-template.svg
/usr/share/licenses/qtractor
/usr/share/licenses/qtractor/COPYING
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/qtractor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qtractor.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/qtractor.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/qtractor.xml
/usr/share/qtractor/translations/qtractor_cs.qm
/usr/share/qtractor/translations/qtractor_de.qm
/usr/share/qtractor/translations/qtractor_es.qm
/usr/share/qtractor/translations/qtractor_fr.qm
/usr/share/qtractor/translations/qtractor_it.qm
/usr/share/qtractor/translations/qtractor_ja.qm
/usr/share/qtractor/translations/qtractor_pt.qm
/usr/share/qtractor/translations/qtractor_ru.qm

References

Summary

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