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Clancy · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: Req: projectM

Hi all,

apologies if this is out of order: although I've been using xandros for 3 years I've never before ventured into the scary world of compiling / packaging. Embarassed

I'm using xandros 4 with all the updates installed. I'd like to install projectM (an open source / openGL port of the winamp directX visualisations package, milkdrop):

http://projectm.sourceforge.net/

It's only available as sourcecode tarballs: one specifically for xmms, one for linux generally, which covers amarok. Ideally I'd like to install both.

I'm at work on a windows machine at the moment, I won't be able to begin looking at this 'til the weekend. After having a browse around the general howtos I suspect I'm going to have all sorts of dependency problems, because xandros 4 is getting a bit old and this is a new release as of 10/10/07. I know projectM needs libvisual 0.4, beyond that there's not a lot of information on the projectM site - at the moment it seems to be aimed mostly at power users.

If anyone cares to look at this, see if it's possible and if so make xandros debs of it that'd be wonderful. If not I plan on having a go myself over the weekend.

If someone does look at it and thinks it's not possible to install projectM under xandros 4 I'd appreciate knowing that: I'll have to use my desktop rather than my old laptop, since the laptop video chip won't run openGL and being short of time I don't want to get myself into a reinstall-from-scrach situation Confused

28/10 eta: having looked at the dependencies I'm fairly sure this would break xandros 4.1 if I pursued it. ProjectM depends on libvisual > 0.4 which depends on libc6 > 2.3.6-6. Xandros is currently on libc6 2.3.2. libc6 seems to be pretty central to the install, many others have broken their install upgrading it.

I depend on Xandros for my day to day computing but it looks like it'll be a while until Xandors 5. I have a spare partition so I'm going to try some other distros, probably kbuntu to start with.
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jimallyn · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject:

Well, here's libvisual:

http://allynelectronics.com/debs/libvisual-0.4-0_1.1X4_i386.deb

http://allynelectronics.com/debs/libvisual-0.4-dev-1.1X4_i386.deb

I'm having a little trouble getting libprojectM to compile, but I may work at it a little longer.

I got libvisual compiled by adding this line to my /etc/apt/sources.list file:

jimallyn · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, 0.99 complains that it needs libftgl to compile. libftgl is not in XN. I can see they are not going to make this easy!

Jim
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jimallyn · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

Well, 0.98 also wants libftgl. . . .

Jim
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jimallyn · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject:

Oh, you apparently have to install ftgl-dev to get libftgl.

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jimallyn · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:28 pm Post subject:

OK, it compiled OK, but when I ran checkinstall to build a DEB of it, I got this error:

dpkg-deb - error: (upstream) version (`libprojectM') doesn't contain any digits

Although I couldn't build a DEB package of it, it apparently did install, as whereis libprojectM returns:

libprojectM: /usr/local/lib/libprojectM.la /usr/local/lib/libprojectM.so /usr/local/lib/libprojectM.a

But I have no idea if it works. Anyway, I seem to have libvisual 0.4 and libprojectM 0.99 installed, and my system hasn't thrown rotten eggs at me or anything like that. YMMV.

Jim
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jimallyn · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject:

If you get it to install, tell me what I have to do to make it do something useful.

Jim
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Clancy · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:43 am Post subject:

Thanks for all the investigations! Very Happy

I'm surprised and pleased to hear libvisual 0.4 installed - once I saw it needed a newer version of libc6 I was prepared to abandon it, since I know fiddling with that can break XOS.

It's now Sunday evening here and real life will keep me busy until Tuesday probably: I'll try the earlier version on my test system then.

To see if it's working start playing some music in Amarok, then select visualisations. If it installed properly projectM should be on the list. I think that's all you need to get it to work under Amarok - they don't actually give much detail on the projectM site, it looks like they're only expecting the guns to try it at this stage.
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jimallyn · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

It doesn't show under visualizations, but my guess would be that I need to do something to tell Amarok where it is. It installs into /usr/local, instead of /usr/lib, so maybe some symlinks are in order. But I haven't got time to play with it right now, so maybe later.

Jim
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jimallyn · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject:

Clancy · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject:

jimallyn · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:33 am Post subject:

Be sure to let me know how it goes!

Jim
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Clancy · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject:

In short: I got all the dependencies installed then in a fit of exuberance decided to try installing libprojectM 1.01 first on the off chance it'd work on my system. That caused a problem at the first hurdle that had me bamboozled for a while, I've now worked out the problem there but not had the time to try anything else (currently at work on a windows machine).

In detail:

The libvisual packages you made installed perfectly using XN, thanks again for those. Smile

I then tried to use XN to install ftgl-dev, that failed with a broken packages message. So I took a look with apt-get which told me ftgl-dev depended on libgl-dev. An attempt to install libgl-dev with apt-get told me

jimallyn · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject:

jimallyn · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject:

There is such a thing as ccmake, with two c's in it; I have it on my system. I notice that the version of cmake available from XN is 2.0.5-1; I have on my system version 2.4-patch 6. It seems to me I had to install that from source somewhere along the line to compile something else that required a newer version of cmake.

Jim
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