[Fluxus] Notes on how to install Fluxus on Ubuntu

[Iain Sharp]

All,

I am just posting this in case it is of any use to anyone. As a complete Linux newbie I've just installed Fluxus on Ubuntu. I started from a completely clean Ubuntu installation. These are my notes on the steps I followed if you want to try (or make this info available to others). Most of the dependencies are in the Ubuntu Package Manager which makes it relatively pain free.

For people from Windows that just want to dip a toe in the Linux water I would recommend WUBI (http://wubi-installer.org/). It creates a virtual hard-disk with an Ubuntu installation as a file on your Windows volume and uses the Windows boot menu to choose the OS at startup. No repartitioning and no changes to your MBR required!

BTW I suspect a lot of you know me from Dorblot London meetings. My projects page (http://www.lushprojects.com/) may jog a few memories.

I am quite excited by my first impressions of Fluxus, but more of that in a "hopeless newbie questions" email in a moment.

Cheers

Iain.

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Ubuntu Installation on HP NC6400

How to install Fluxus on a clean Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04

Note: "install" means install using the Synaptic Package Manager. "install application" means install using Application -> Add/Remove...

* Replace this step with what is right for your video card *
1) Installed package "xserver-xorg-video-intel" to give correct screen resolution (doing this replaces one of the default packages)

NOTE: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace restarts X-windows

2) Installed package "jackd"

3) Install application "Jack control"
(Jack control panel appears in sound)

4) Install libode0c2 and libode0-dev

5) Install "scons" package

6) Install "libglew-dev" package (glew already installed)

7) Install fftw3 and fftw3-dev

8) Install libsndfile1-dev (libsndfile1 already installed)

9) install liblo0-dev and liblo0

15) Install libxext-dev

16) install libxt-dev

17) install libxaw7-dev

18) Download PLT scheme from http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fluxus/files/plt-369.10-src-unix.tgz

19) Unpack and cd in to "src" in unpacked archive

20) ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local

21) make

22) sudo make install

23) Install libjpeg62-dev

24) Install libtiff4-dev

25) Install libfreetype6-dev

26) Install libpng12-dev

27) Install libjack0.100.0-dev

28) Install freeglut3-dev libglut3-dev

29) Download and unpack fluxus

30) cd to fluxus dir

31) scons

32) sudo scons install

33) Update library path. NOTE: This is a funny on BSD and Ubuntu - they don't treat /usr/local/lib as a standard library path. Choose a better editor than "vi" if you don't already know how to use it.
cd /etc
sudo vi ld.so.conf
insert line "/usr/local/lib"

34) sudo ldconfig

35) create $home/.fluxus.scm containing
 (start-audio "" 1024 44100)

36) Run fluxus "fluxus"

fluxus -p ~/Desktop/secret-one.keys






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