How To Install portmidi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install portmidi on Rocky Linux 8. portmidi is Real-time Midi I/O Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install portmidi on Rocky Linux 8.

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

Install portmidi 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 portmidi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install portmidi

Install portmidi 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 portmidi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install portmidi

How To Uninstall portmidi on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove portmidi

portmidi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/aa675af440412f63db61f337e3e70b42c4c315
/usr/lib64/libportmidi.so.0
/usr/lib64/libportmidi.so.0.217
/usr/share/doc/portmidi
/usr/share/doc/portmidi/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/licenses/portmidi
/usr/share/licenses/portmidi/license.txt

References

Summary

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