How To Install portmidi on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install portmidi on CentOS 7. portmidi is Real-time Midi I/O Library

Introduction

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

What is portmidi

PortMedia is a set of simple clean APIs and cross-platform library implementations for music and other media. PortMidi sub-project provides a real-time MIDI input/output library. This package contains the PortMidi libraries.

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

Install portmidi on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install portmidi

Install portmidi 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 portmidi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install portmidi

How To Uninstall portmidi on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove portmidi

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Summary

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