MusE - The Linux (Midi) Music Editor

2. Installation

2.1 How to Obtain MusE

MusE is available at the MusE Homepage, located at http://www.muse-sequencer.org/. Download the latest non-beta release and follow the installation instructions below.

2.2 System Requirements

To run MusE on your workstation, the following conditions must be met:

A GNU/Linux distribution (Red Hat, Debian, etc.)
A working windowing system (most likely X Windows)
qt 2.2 (http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt)
gcc 2.95.2 (http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html)
glibc 2.1 (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc)
Linux kernel configured with RealTimeClock support (/dev/rtc)
ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) 0.5.9c (it should work with standard OSS drivers as well)
an external midi device

2.3 Compiliation and Installation

Unpack the newly-downloaded tarball into a directory and edit the file make.inc.

The most important variables to set in this file are:

QTDIR
ALSA
OSS

Point QTDIR to where your QT libraries are installed. ALSA and OSS are boolean values (ie. yes or no) that tell MusE how to handle Midi and Audio on your system. It is safe to say yes to both.

A sample config:

	QTDIR = /usr/local/qt
	ALSA = no
	OSS = yes

When done, save make.inc and run the following commands:

	make depend
	make
	make install

Note that make install will ask for the root 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.

Hint: To get even better timing than that, run MusE with the -R option.