How to Install and Uninstall timidity Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "timidity" package

This is a short guide on how to install timidity on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                timidity
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "timidity" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall timidity on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                timidity
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the timidity package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: timidity
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Installed-Size: 1431
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Geoffrey Thomas
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.13.2-40.3
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.15), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35), libflac8 (>= 1.3.0), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libncurses5 (>= 6), libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libtinfo5 (>= 6), libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.1.2), libx11-6, libxaw7, libxext6, libxt6, lsb-base (>= 3.2-13)
Recommends: freepats, timidity-daemon
Suggests: pmidi, fluid-soundfont-gm, fluid-soundfont-gs
Filename: pool/universe/t/timidity/timidity_2.13.2-40.3_amd64.deb
Size: 569070
MD5sum: 2d3dd44818c24d186f2617bea2d46c90
SHA1: f020f59b97571953aedc0f1193349efc24084a57
SHA256: 923dd75c7b0be94ba3bb3fdbe2073128d1ead4d5bed87a9d428426ce7255001a
Description-en: Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player)
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.
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* 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
Description-md5: 88603973f702806f3ef904664ecf1612
Homepage: http://timidity.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu