How To Install abcMIDI on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcMIDI on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abcMIDI.

Install abcMIDI on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install abcMIDI

Install abcMIDI on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install abcMIDI

How To Uninstall abcMIDI on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove abcMIDI

abcMIDI Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/abc2abc
/usr/bin/abc2midi
/usr/bin/abcmatch
/usr/bin/mftext
/usr/bin/midi2abc
/usr/bin/midicopy
/usr/bin/yaps
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/22abf29cc97191b8936e91cc70cfde42a94935
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/8ebb809b6683a9858892aaebf903b17f8a29bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/0faf69a4f4f52ed233af55576646ab98661889
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/567d486d852f38e0313703cde9f3912258689e
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/b59b0c6d98156e0d211b0374801bda0aff5897
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/e4400aeadfc05d6e23437a314b7b1c5c11cdd2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/687c09d79f1944f242327f3a6cd3ab56ff35e9
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/abcguide.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/abcmatch.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/history.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/midi2abc-stats.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/abc2midi.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/coding.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Entries
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Repository
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Root
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/midi2abc.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/split.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/yaps.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/yapshelp.txt
/usr/share/licenses/abcMIDI
/usr/share/licenses/abcMIDI/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/abc2abc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abc2midi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mftext.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/midi2abc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/midicopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yaps.1.gz

References

Summary

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