How To Install timidity on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install timidity on Debian 11.
What is timidity
timidity is:
TiMidity++ is a very high quality software-only MIDI sequencer and MOD player. It uses sound fonts (GUS-compatible or SF2-compatible) to render MIDI files, which are not included in this package.
- Plays MIDI files without any external MIDI instruments at all
- Understands SMF, RCP/R36/G18/G36, MFI, RMI (MIDI)
- Autodetects and supports GM/GS/XG MIDI
- Understands MOD, XM, S3M, IT, 699, AMF, DSM, FAR, GDM, IMF, MED, MTM, STM, STX, ULT, UNI (MOD)
- Does MOD to MIDI conversion (including playback)
- Outputs audio into various audio file formats: WAV, au, AIFF, Ogg (Vorbis, FLAC, Speex)
- Supports JACK, ALSA and AO drivers
- Uses Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files and SoundFont2 patch files as the voice data for MIDI instruments
- Supports playing from archives (zip, lzh, tar…).
- Timidity++ can be used as an ALSA sequencer device
There are three methods to install timidity on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install timidity Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install timidity using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install timidity
Install timidity Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install timidity using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install timidity
Install timidity 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 timidity using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install timidity
How To Uninstall timidity on Debian 11
To uninstall only the timidity package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove timidity
Uninstall timidity And Its Dependencies
To uninstall timidity and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove timidity
Remove timidity Configurations and Data
To remove timidity configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge timidity
Remove timidity configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove timidity configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge timidity
Dependencies
timidity have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install timidity package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
