[PlanetCCRMA] Fedora 7: Planet CCRMA for i386!

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:22 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> wow! that was fast! 

Well, everything was pretty much ready to go when you asked :-)

> Thank you very much. I'm running the RT-Kernel with no problems.

Good to hear that (others were not so lucky, apparently). 
-- Fernando


> 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/planetccrma-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/repodata/
> >
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetcore/7/i386/repodata/
> >
> > 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