How To Install portmidi-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install portmidi-tools on Rocky Linux 8. portmidi-tools is Tools to configure and use portmidi

Introduction

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

What is portmidi-tools

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 configuration utility “pmdefaults” and some test applications.

We can use yum or dnf to install portmidi-tools on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install portmidi-tools.

Install portmidi-tools 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-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install portmidi-tools

Install portmidi-tools 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-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install portmidi-tools

How To Uninstall portmidi-tools on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove portmidi-tools

portmidi-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/pmdefaults
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/4913e9993d1c03d84347109dffbc5bcc3d42e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/88bc0225c2b3a3ef5f3dccbf45d520e6f9ed9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/98dc21e6b477f0f899e7332408357fa814d05d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/b3801f28ea88f31fec3101f0c76efb530153f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/d80b7037fe85615bc2c7a2f5b1c3eee75c3aa6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/4d663db618fea36d8db7734a5a7c1aa0a618fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/b429699882698ed8bc4c92aae86d79c921cc85
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/9ddd02913d55caefad149225e93669463db07e
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/48638e49bf6c2795afec1a4a6e3287d6a60743
/usr/lib64/portmidi
/usr/lib64/portmidi/latency
/usr/lib64/portmidi/libpmjni.so
/usr/lib64/portmidi/midiclock
/usr/lib64/portmidi/midithread
/usr/lib64/portmidi/midithru
/usr/lib64/portmidi/mm
/usr/lib64/portmidi/pmdefaults.jar
/usr/lib64/portmidi/qtest
/usr/lib64/portmidi/sysex
/usr/lib64/portmidi/test
/usr/share/applications/pmdefaults.desktop
/usr/share/doc/portmidi-tools
/usr/share/doc/portmidi-tools/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/portmidi-tools/README_CL.txt
/usr/share/doc/portmidi-tools/cffi-portmidi.lisp
/usr/share/doc/portmidi-tools/test-no-cm.lisp
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/pmdefaults-icon.png

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Summary

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