How To Install timidity on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install timidity
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 NAS, eSound, JACK, ALSA and OSS 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…) and playing remote data from the network
- Timidity++ can be used as an ALSA sequencer device
There are three methods to install timidity
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove timidity
Remove timidity Configurations and Data
To remove timidity
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install timidity
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.