Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8.
What is abcMIDI
The abcMIDI package contains four programs music notation to MIDI, midi2abc to convert MIDI files to (a first approximation to) the corresponding ABC, abc2abc to reformat and/or transpose ABC files, and yaps to typeset ABC files as PostScript. For a description of the ABC syntax, please see the ABC userguide which is a part of the abcm2ps. A mirror github repo is at https
We can use yum or dnf to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abcMIDI.
Install abcMIDI on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install abcMIDI using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install abcMIDI
Install abcMIDI on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install abcMIDI using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install abcMIDI
How To Uninstall abcMIDI on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the abcMIDI package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove abcMIDI
abcMIDI Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/abc2abc
/usr/bin/abc2midi
/usr/bin/abcmatch
/usr/bin/mftext
/usr/bin/midi2abc
/usr/bin/midicopy
/usr/bin/yaps
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/22abf29cc97191b8936e91cc70cfde42a94935
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/8ebb809b6683a9858892aaebf903b17f8a29bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/0faf69a4f4f52ed233af55576646ab98661889
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/567d486d852f38e0313703cde9f3912258689e
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/b59b0c6d98156e0d211b0374801bda0aff5897
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/e4400aeadfc05d6e23437a314b7b1c5c11cdd2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/687c09d79f1944f242327f3a6cd3ab56ff35e9
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/abcguide.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/abcmatch.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/history.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/midi2abc-stats.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/abc2midi.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/coding.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Entries
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Repository
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/cvs/Root
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/midi2abc.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/split.abc
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/programming/yaps.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/abcMIDI/yapshelp.txt
/usr/share/licenses/abcMIDI
/usr/share/licenses/abcMIDI/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/abc2abc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abc2midi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mftext.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/midi2abc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/midicopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yaps.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install abcMIDI on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
