How To Install midish on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install midish on Debian 9.
What is midish
midish is:
midish is a MIDI sequencer/filter implemented as a shell-like interpreter. It’s intended to be lightweight, fast and reliable for real-time performance. Important features are: multiple MIDI devices handling, synchronisation to external MIDI devices, real-time MIDI filtering/routing (controller mapping, keyboard splitting, …), track recording and editing (insert, copy, delete, quantize…), import and export of standard MIDI files, system exclusive messages handling.
There are three methods to install midish on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install midish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install midish using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install midish
Install midish Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install midish using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install midish
Install midish 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 midish using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install midish
How To Uninstall midish on Debian 9
To uninstall only the midish package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove midish
Uninstall midish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall midish and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove midish
Remove midish Configurations and Data
To remove midish configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge midish
Remove midish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove midish configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge midish
Dependencies
midish have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install midish package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.