How To Install wildmidi on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install wildmidi on Ubuntu 18.04. wildmidi is software MIDI player

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wildmidi on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is wildmidi

wildmidi is:

Minimal MIDI player implementation based on the wildmidi library that can either dump to WAV or playback over ALSA. It is intended to demonstrate the features of libWildMidi, including: reberb, logarithmic volume and high-quality linear or gauss resampling.

There are three methods to install wildmidi 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 wildmidi Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install wildmidi using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wildmidi

Install wildmidi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wildmidi using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wildmidi

Install wildmidi 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 wildmidi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wildmidi

How To Uninstall wildmidi on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove wildmidi

Uninstall wildmidi And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wildmidi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wildmidi

Remove wildmidi Configurations and Data

To remove wildmidi configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wildmidi

Remove wildmidi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wildmidi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wildmidi

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wildmidi package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.