How To Install abcMIDI on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8. abcMIDI is ABC to/from MIDI conversion utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8.

What is abcMIDI

The abcMIDI package contains four programs music notation to MIDI, midi2abc to convert MIDI files to (a first approximation to) the corresponding ABC, abc2abc to reformat and/or transpose ABC files, and yaps to typeset ABC files as PostScript. For a description of the ABC syntax, please see the ABC userguide which is a part of the abcm2ps. A mirror github repo is at https

We can use yum or dnf to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abcMIDI.

Install abcMIDI on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install abcMIDI using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abcMIDI

Install abcMIDI on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install abcMIDI using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abcMIDI

How To Uninstall abcMIDI on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove abcMIDI

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.