<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>