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author | Robert Jonsson <spamatica@gmail.com> | 2011-03-07 19:01:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/attic/muse2-oom/muse2/share/html/installation.html b/attic/muse2-oom/muse2/share/html/installation.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..19527333 --- /dev/null +++ b/attic/muse2-oom/muse2/share/html/installation.html @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +<qt bgcolor="#f4f4c8" title="MusE - The Linux (Midi) Music Editor"> +<center><h1>MusE - The Linux (Midi) Music Editor</h1></center> + +<h2>2. Installation</h2> +<p> +<h2>2.1 How to Obtain MusE</h2> +MusE is available at the MusE Homepage, located at +<a href="http://www.muse-sequencer.org/">http://www.muse-sequencer.org/</a>. +Download the latest non-beta release and follow the +installation instructions below. + +<h2>2.2 System Requirements</h2> +To run MusE on your workstation, the following conditions must be met: +<ul> + <li>A GNU/Linux distribution (Red Hat, Debian, etc.) + <li>A working windowing system (most likely X Windows) + <li>qt 2.2 (<a href="http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt">http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt</a>) + <li>gcc 2.95.2 (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html</a>) + <li>glibc 2.1 (<a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc</a>) + <li>Linux kernel configured with RealTimeClock support (<tt>/dev/rtc</tt>) + <li>ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) 0.5.9c (it should work with standard OSS drivers as well) + <li>an external midi device +</ul> + +<h2>2.3 Compiliation and Installation</h2> +Unpack the newly-downloaded tarball into a directory and edit +the file <tt>make.inc</tt>. +<p> +The most important variables to set in this file are: +<ul> + <li>QTDIR + <li>ALSA + <li>OSS +</ul> + +Point <tt>QTDIR</tt> to where your QT libraries are installed. +<tt>ALSA</tt> and <tt>OSS</tt> are boolean values (ie. <tt>yes</tt> +or <tt>no</tt>) that tell MusE how to handle Midi and Audio on your +system. It is safe to say <tt>yes</tt> to both. +<p> +A sample config: +<p> +<pre> + QTDIR = /usr/local/qt + ALSA = no + OSS = yes +</pre> + +<p> +When done, save <tt>make.inc</tt> and run the following commands: +<pre> + make depend + make + make install +</pre> + +<p> +Note that <tt>make install</tt> will ask for the <tt>root</tt> password, +as MusE is installed as a setuid-root binary. Setuid-root is needed to allow +MusE to get proper timing functions from the Linux kernel. +<p> +<b>Hint:</b> To get even better timing than that, run MusE with the -R option. + +</qt> |