How To Install timidity++ on Fedora 34

timidity++ is A software wavetable MIDI synthesizer

Introduction

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

What is timidity++

TiMidity++ is a MIDI format to wave table format converter and player. Install timidity++ if you’d like to play MIDI files and your sound card does not natively support wave table format.

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

Install timidity++ 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 timidity++ using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install timidity++

Install timidity++ 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 timidity++ using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install timidity++

How To Uninstall timidity++ on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the timidity++ package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove timidity++

timidity++ Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/timidity
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/76d95bfeab460e5f251e5a4ffd6956f772a105
/usr/lib64/timidity++
/usr/share/doc/timidity++
/usr/share/doc/timidity++/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/timidity++/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/timidity++/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/timidity++/README
/usr/share/licenses/timidity++
/usr/share/licenses/timidity++/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/timidity.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/timidity.cfg.5.gz

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Summary

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