How To Install abcmidi on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install abcmidi on Ubuntu.
What is abcmidi
abcmidi is:
This package contains the programs
abc2midi' andmidi2abc’, which convert from the abc musical notation format to standard MIDI format and vice-versa. They can generate accompaniment from guitar chords in the abc file, as well as insert various MIDI events; the MIDI-to-abc translation tries to figure out bars, triplets and accidentals on its own.
The package also contains abc2abc' (an abc prettyprinter/transposer), mftext’ (a program that dumps a MIDI file as text), and `midicopy'
(a program that extracts specific tracks, channels or time intervals
from a MIDI file).
The package also contains Yet another ABC to PostScript converter (yaps) which translates tunes written in the ABC format to PostScript, which can then be viewed on screen or printed. It is essentially a (non-exclusive) alternative to abc2ps, being based on the abc2ps PostScript code together with the ABC parser from the abcmidi package.
There are three methods to install abcmidi on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install abcmidi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install abcmidi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install abcmidi
Install abcmidi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install abcmidi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install abcmidi
Install abcmidi 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 abcmidi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install abcmidi
How To Uninstall abcmidi on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the abcmidi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove abcmidi
Uninstall abcmidi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall abcmidi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove abcmidi
Remove abcmidi Configurations and Data
To remove abcmidi configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge abcmidi
Remove abcmidi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove abcmidi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge abcmidi
Dependencies
abcmidi have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install abcmidi package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.