How To Install abcmidi on Debian 12

Learn how to install abcmidi on Debian 12 with this tutorial. abcmidi is converter from ABC to MIDI format and back

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcmidi on Debian 12.

What is abcmidi

abcmidi is:

This package contains the programs abc2midi' and midi2abc’, which convert from the abc musical notation format to standard MIDI format and vice-versa. They can generate accompaniment from guitar chords in the abc file, as well as insert various MIDI events; the MIDI-to-abc translation tries to figure out bars, triplets and accidentals on its own.

The package also contains abc2abc' (an abc prettyprinter/transposer), mftext’ (a program that dumps a MIDI file as text), and `midicopy' (a program that extracts specific tracks, channels or time intervals from a MIDI file).

The package also contains Yet another ABC to PostScript converter (yaps) which translates tunes written in the ABC format to PostScript, which can then be viewed on screen or printed. It is essentially a (non-exclusive) alternative to abc2ps, being based on the abc2ps PostScript code together with the ABC parser from the abcmidi package.

There are three methods to install abcmidi on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install abcmidi Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install abcmidi using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install abcmidi

Install abcmidi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install abcmidi using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install abcmidi

Install abcmidi Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install abcmidi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install abcmidi

How To Uninstall abcmidi on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove abcmidi

Uninstall abcmidi And Its Dependencies

To uninstall abcmidi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove abcmidi

Remove abcmidi Configurations and Data

To remove abcmidi configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge abcmidi

Remove abcmidi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove abcmidi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge abcmidi

Dependencies

abcmidi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abcmidi package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.