[PlanetCCRMA] Fedora 7: Planet CCRMA for i386!

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 14:32 +0000, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> I can't do it - I just took the time to set up CCRMA on FC6 on the 64 bit 
> kernel, and (subjectively, of course) it is the most stable with the fewest 
> xruns I have dealt with.

Glad to hear it is working for you. 

> If all contributors are willing to keep updates available on two versions, 
> I think I will probably keep with "every other" version, rather than staying 
> right on the edge.

I'll keep (hopefully) fc6 up to date for a while so I would advise you
to stay put and keep making music on what you have!

> In case I haven't said this lately, thank you everyone for all the time 
> and contributions to CCRMA.  It keeps lowly project studio guys like me 
> in some REALLY cool software.  I can't tell you how many people see it 
> and say, "so how much does all this COST?"  The look they give me is 
> priceless when I tell them, "the time to download it."

Maybe next time you could have a camera with you and capture the
"priceless" moment - then we set up a photo gallery :-) What they most
probably don't realize at that point is that it is not "free", you do
have to invest time (= money in a way) to learn a completely new system
and deal with the inevitable bugs and quirks... Still a win situation,
of course. 

-- Fernando


>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Hector Centeno" <hcengar@gmail.com>
> > wow! that was fast! Thank you very much. I'm running the RT-Kernel
> > with no problems.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > 
> > Hector
> > 
> > On 6/7/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > > [WARNING: fc7 is new. New releases have bugs. I don't like bugs. I would
> > > not install fc7 right away. Specially if I were to be already making
> > > music on fcx where x < 7 :-]
> > >
> > > Having said that, there's a trial version available of Planet CCRMA
> > > built on top of Fedora 7 i386 (for now). As usual you start by pointing
> > > to the Planet CCRMA repositories (all in one line):
> > >
> > > ----
> > > rpm -Uvh
> > > 
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/7/i386/pla
> > netccrma-repo-1.0-3.fc7.ccrma.noarch.rpm
> > > ----
> > >
> > > Then get the realtime kernel and friends:
> > > ----
> > >   yum install planetccrma-core
> > > ----
> > >
> > > Then get the applications and nice menus:
> > > ----
> > >   yum install planetccrma-apps
> > > ----
> > >
> > > As usual you can see the available packages at the repoview web site
> > > here:
> > >
> > > 
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/7/i386/rep
> > odata/
> > >
> > > 
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetcore/7/i386/repo
> > data/
> > >
> > > Pretty much all packages already available on fc6 are now available on
> > > f7 (see below for exceptions).
> > >
> > > I usually take a long time to rebuild on top of a new Fedora release, I
> > > don't know what happened this time but having a trial Planet CCRMA a
> > > week after the new release has never happened before :-)
> > >
> > > Things I know don't work: Common Music does not start properly (but CLM
> > > and CMN are happy), it does start on a mach chroot but not on my trial
> > > install in an old disk in my old laptop. Supercollider does not start
> > > properly, sclang seems happy and prints the right things but exits at
> > > the end instead of waiting for commands... Pd, as is usual in new
> > > releases, lacks the Gem external which is a perpetual pain to build, and
> > > if experience is any guide it will take a while to get it compiled.
> > >
> > > Many other programs may _not_ be working. If you find one please let me
> > > know.
> > >
> > > Enjoy!
> > > -- Fernando
> > >