How To Install timidity 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 timidity on Ubuntu.

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 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 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

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, 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 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:

• lsb-base
• libao4
• libasound2
• libc6
• libflac8
• libjack-jackd2-0
• libncurses6
• libogg0
• libpng16-16
• libspeex1
• libtinfo6
• libvorbis0a
• libvorbisenc2
• libx11-6
• libxaw7
• libxext6
• libxt6

References

• timidity website

Summary

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