Quote Originally Posted by aay
Try this:

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apt-get install timidity
Then go to the command line, navigate to where your midi file is, and do the following:

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timidity (name of file)

I tried that, but since I am using the poor man's install, nothing happened.

Just reading between the lines, I guess without a full install MIDI just won't work?

The response from the bash shell was

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W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.