How To Install libinstpatch on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libinstpatch on CentOS 7. libinstpatch is Instrument file software library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libinstpatch on CentOS 7.

What is libinstpatch

libInstPatch stands for lib-Instrument-Patch and is a library for processing digital sample based MIDI instrument “patch” files. The types of files libInstPatch supports are used for creating instrument sounds for wavetable synthesis. libInstPatch provides an object framework (based on GObject) to load patch files into, which can then be edited, converted, compressed and saved.

We can use yum or dnf to install libinstpatch on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libinstpatch.

Install libinstpatch on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install libinstpatch

Install libinstpatch on CentOS 7 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 libinstpatch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libinstpatch

How To Uninstall libinstpatch on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libinstpatch

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libinstpatch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.