How To Install fluid-soundfont-gs on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fluid-soundfont-gs on Fedora 36.
What is fluid-soundfont-gs
FluidR3 is the third release of Frank Wen’s pro-quality GM/GS soundfont. The soundfont has lots of excellent samples, including all the GM instruments along side with the GS instruments that are recycled and reprogrammed versions of the GM presets. This package contains instruments belonging to General Midi’s General Standard (GS) Extension in soundfont 2.0 (.sf2) format.
We can use yum or dnf to install fluid-soundfont-gs on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fluid-soundfont-gs.
Install fluid-soundfont-gs on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fluid-soundfont-gs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fluid-soundfont-gs
Install fluid-soundfont-gs on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fluid-soundfont-gs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fluid-soundfont-gs
How To Uninstall fluid-soundfont-gs on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the fluid-soundfont-gs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fluid-soundfont-gs
fluid-soundfont-gs Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GS.sf2
/usr/share/soundfonts/fluid3gs.cfg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fluid-soundfont-gs on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).