In this article, we are going to see how to install midi Python on Linux. MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is a way to connect devices that make and control sounds. And there is a python framework for this midi manipulation. Using this python framework, we can read MIDI files from disk, build new MIDI streams, process, filter preexisting streams, and write our changes back to disk. In this article, we are going to learn how we can install midi for python on our Linux machine.
Installing midi on Linux
Step 1: Install the aptitude package manager by running the following command:
sudo apt install aptitude -y
Running the above command will result in the installation of the aptitude package manager onto your Linux machine.
Step 2: To install the midi, head towards the midi GitHub repository and clone it on your desktop.
git clone https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi.git
Step 3: Download the dependencies to build this package by running the following command into your Linux terminal.
- Installing python
sudo aptitude install python
Installing python
- Installing setup tools to build the package.
sudo aptitude install python-setuptools
Installing setuptools
Step 3: Installing the midi by running the setup.py file.
cd python-midi sudo python setup.py install
midi installed
Step 4: To verify the installation, run the following command into your terminal:
python import midi print(midi)
midi installed
This will print the installation location of the midi, which confirms the installation of the onto your system.