[PlanetCCRMA] Getting up and running in CentOS 6

[Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale]

Hi,

Donald Steven <t6sn7gt at aim.com> writes:

> I've got Centos 6 up and running, with jack and functioning audio, 
> etc.    But many key apps (ardour, jamin, csound, pd, supercollider) are 
> not in the distribution, extras, EPEL or ATrpms, etc.  I've tried 
> downloading them from pbone.net, but they won't install, for dependency 
> reasons.  Can anyone suggest how to get the music applications 
> installed?  (Centos 6 looks like a fine, stable distro that will be 
> maintained for many years.)

Rebuilding the packages from Fedora/Planet CCRMA SRPMS is the way to
go. I did this for CentOS 5 a few years back, the bulk of it is quite
easy (a few packages may get quite painful, pd comes to mind).

I am currently working on migrating our workstations to Scientific Linux
6, which should be 100% compatible with CentOS. I have already published
a few packages at <http://rpms.ircam.fr/sl/6/>, probably more to come,
but I'm afraid I won't have time to rebuild everything.

-- 
Arnaud