[Csnd] [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine
Date | 2012-03-10 00:15 |
From | Jim Aikin |
Subject | [Csnd] [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
I've just learned that the Linux Audio conference next month will be within driving distance of my house. I'm not a Linux user, but since I may know a few of the people there, I thought it might be fun to drop by. But I'd feel a tiny bit more legit if I had a tiny bit more experience with Linux. So I would love it if someone could suggest how I might be able to download and install a good version of Linux to this PC without, you know, making myself completely crazy. I found a site (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download) that purports to have an Ubuntu installer for Windows, but the installer complained that I didn't have a disk in the drive -- which was rather silly, as I had never been instructed that I _needed_ an external disk. And then the installer's pyrun.exe flat-out wouldn't quit. I had to do a cold boot, as even Task Manager couldn't make it give up. So I'm not sure that's the best source of a downloadable version.... Suggestions welcome! --JA -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/OT-Installing-Linux-in-a-Windows-7-Machine-tp5551998p5551998.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
Date | 2012-03-10 00:30 |
From | Matti Koskinen |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
On Mar 10, 2012, at 2:15 AM, Jim Aikin wrote: > I've just learned that the Linux Audio conference next month will be within > driving distance of my house. I'm not a Linux user, but since I may know a > few of the people there, I thought it might be fun to drop by. > > But I'd feel a tiny bit more legit if I had a tiny bit more experience with > Linux. So I would love it if someone could suggest how I might be able to > download and install a good version of Linux to this PC without, you know, > making myself completely crazy. > > I found a site (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download) that > purports to have an Ubuntu installer for Windows, but the installer > complained that I didn't have a disk in the drive -- which was rather silly, > as I had never been instructed that I _needed_ an external disk. And then > the installer's pyrun.exe flat-out wouldn't quit. I had to do a cold boot, > as even Task Manager couldn't make it give up. So I'm not sure that's the > best source of a downloadable version.... > > Suggestions welcome! > I managed to install it, just click repeatedly and it installs. -matti |
Date | 2012-03-10 00:43 |
From | luis jure |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
on 2012-03-09 at 16:15 Jim Aikin wrote: >But I'd feel a tiny bit more legit if I had a tiny bit more experience >with Linux. So I would love it if someone could suggest how I might be >able to download and install a good version of Linux to this PC without, >you know, making myself completely crazy. no guarantee about the last part (going crazy trying). actually, no guarantee about the previous part either (a "good" version of linux), but i guess that there are basically three possible approaches: 1) try a live distribution: you can boot and try a linux system directly from the cd or dvd, without any actual installation; 2) install linux on a virtual machine running on your windows system: you'll be able to run and configure a "real" linux system, without having to repartition your drive or configuring the boot loader. virtualbox is free and works great (on linux at least); 3) repartition your drive and actually install linux on your machine: you'll have a dual boot computer. i guess there's also 4): if you have an old computer lying around that you don't use and that you don't mind wiping out, you can use it as a playground. as for distributions, ubuntu is usually very easy to install, and most of the time everything works out of the box. one caveat though: avoid at all costs an execrable user interface called "unity". when i have to install ubuntu for some reason, i choose a version called xubuntu, that uses xfce as default window manager. good luck! |
Date | 2012-03-10 06:42 |
From | Jim Aikin |
Subject | [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
Thanks, Luis. Good suggestion! > i guess there's also 4): if you have an old computer lying around that you > don't use and that you don't mind wiping out, you can use it as a > playground. As it turns out, I didn't have to wipe it out. I have a WinXP laptop that I never use because it tends to overheat and shut itself off when asked to do CPU-intensive tasks (such as, oh, audio DSP, for example). The Ubuntu Windows download/install worked flawlessly in it, and I now have a dual-boot machine. --JA -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/OT-Installing-Linux-in-a-Windows-7-Machine-tp5551998p5552377.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
Date | 2012-03-10 07:47 |
From | Tarmo Johannes |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
I suggest AVlinux - runs also from live dvd, lightwaight and everything ready for audio work. On 10.03.2012 8:43, "Jim Aikin" <midiguru23@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Thanks, Luis. Good suggestion! |
Date | 2012-03-10 11:39 |
From | luis jure |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
on 2012-03-09 at 22:42 Jim Aikin wrote: > The Ubuntu Windows download/install worked flawlessly in it, and I now > have a dual-boot machine. great! congratulations, and welcome to the wonderful world of linux... :-) one problem that i have with ubuntu is that two of the most important packages for me aren't well supported, and are either somewhat outdated (csound), or totally obsolete (lilypond). you can get somewhat newer versions allowing the "unstable" branch. good luck! |
Date | 2012-03-10 14:02 |
From | Adam Puckett |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
Lilypond obsolete? I thought there was a new version of it a couple months ago. |
Date | 2012-03-10 14:46 |
From | luis jure |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
on 2012-03-10 at 09:02 Adam Puckett wrote: >Lilypond obsolete? I thought there was a new version of it a couple >months ago. sorry if i didn't express myself clearly: what i meant was that the latest version of lilypond that you can get on "stable" debian/ubuntu repositories is obsolete: like 2.12 something. this is really prehistoric, and since lilypond doesn't observe much backwards compatibility, it's pretty much unusable. to get the latest *stable* release of lilypond, you have to go for the *unstable* repositories, and that can get really unstable sometimes. the latest developing version of lilypond (2.15.x) is not available at all. the situation is not so extreme but similar with csound: latest stable version is 5.13, and the latest available in any way is 5.14. of course you can always install from sources outside the package manager, but i don't that a bit messy. after all, what's the idea of a distribution with some sort of package management? caveat: i'm not very savant in debian/ubuntu, perhaps it's just that i don't know how to get updated packages. but i doubt it. |
Date | 2012-03-10 15:28 |
From | Justin Smith |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
Debian uses a much more literal version of stable than most of the software world. I use Debian because having programs rarely crash is a big priority to me. I have a short lit of programs )including csound) that I install from source into /usr/local because I like the newer features. And it is great to have the /usr/bin version of csound around when the up to date one is buggy. If Debian and its forks move to slow feature wise and you don't want to deal with compiling from source I hear great things about Arch and Fedora.
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Date | 2012-03-11 07:43 |
From | Jim Aikin |
Subject | [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
> one caveat though: avoid at all > costs an execrable user interface called "unity". when i have to install > ubuntu for some reason, i choose a version called xubuntu, that uses xfce > as default window manager. When I downloaded Ubuntu, what I got was the Unity interface. I can sense, dimly, that there might be reasons why it's not ideal, so now I've downloaded xubuntu, which comes as an .iso file. However, I have no idea on Earth what to do with it. Other than extract the contents, of course. I used Package Manager to download Csound (5.13 ... oh, well). Package Manager told me Csound was installed, but Dash can't find it as an app, which means that I have no idea how to run it. Possibly from the terminal, but Unity "cleverly" doesn't display the actual directory structure in its Windows-type file explorer (in particular, there's no Applications directory, nor anything resembling it), so I'll have to learn to use a few terminal commands to even find the Csound files. I also downloaded the most recent Csound 5.16 tarball from SourceForge. What I now find is that the information Dave Phillips very kindly provided for my new book about how to compile Csound in Linux doesn't really tell me what to do. That discussion (on p. 26) begins, "Assuming all of the necessary build tools are installed...." And already I'm lost. While reading my own book, which is a chastening experience, I have to say. I should have gone through this learning process six months ago, shouldn't I? To some extent I'm just whining. (Whining being one of my less attractive specialties.) I don't actually NEED Linux at all, much less Csound running in Linux. But I'm fairly curious about how the whole experience plays out. I had a look around the Web for Ubuntu documentation, and found nothing resembling a clear discussion of anything. I'm starting to wonder if the Linux version of RTFM is AYSA (ask your system administrator). -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/OT-Installing-Linux-in-a-Windows-7-Machine-tp5551998p5554237.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
Date | 2012-03-11 11:13 |
From | Victor Lazzarini |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
Installing the development tools should not be too difficult with the Ubuntu GUI package manager (or whatever it is called). A few weeks ago, I downloaded and installed Ubuntu on a laptop, after installation, it automatically went looking for updates and installed all the devel tools. I still had to go and get emacs, but that was easy enough (using apt-get on the command-line). In fact, I found it very simple to get and install packages. The other day I needed latex. I typed tex on the terminal and the system gave me the name of the package I needed to install for it. Previously, I had been using fedora, and the usual thing was to install all of it from the DVDs (all packages came in it), which I think was convenient. But with Ubuntu, it seems to be just as easy. Victor On 11 Mar 2012, at 07:43, Jim Aikin wrote: >> one caveat though: avoid at all >> costs an execrable user interface called "unity". when i have to install >> ubuntu for some reason, i choose a version called xubuntu, that uses xfce >> as default window manager. > > When I downloaded Ubuntu, what I got was the Unity interface. I can sense, > dimly, that there might be reasons why it's not ideal, so now I've > downloaded xubuntu, which comes as an .iso file. However, I have no idea on > Earth what to do with it. Other than extract the contents, of course. > > I used Package Manager to download Csound (5.13 ... oh, well). Package > Manager told me Csound was installed, but Dash can't find it as an app, > which means that I have no idea how to run it. Possibly from the terminal, > but Unity "cleverly" doesn't display the actual directory structure in its > Windows-type file explorer (in particular, there's no Applications > directory, nor anything resembling it), so I'll have to learn to use a few > terminal commands to even find the Csound files. > > I also downloaded the most recent Csound 5.16 tarball from SourceForge. What > I now find is that the information Dave Phillips very kindly provided for my > new book about how to compile Csound in Linux doesn't really tell me what to > do. That discussion (on p. 26) begins, "Assuming all of the necessary build > tools are installed...." And already I'm lost. While reading my own book, > which is a chastening experience, I have to say. I should have gone through > this learning process six months ago, shouldn't I? > > To some extent I'm just whining. (Whining being one of my less attractive > specialties.) I don't actually NEED Linux at all, much less Csound running > in Linux. But I'm fairly curious about how the whole experience plays out. I > had a look around the Web for Ubuntu documentation, and found nothing > resembling a clear discussion of anything. I'm starting to wonder if the > Linux version of RTFM is AYSA (ask your system administrator). > > -- > View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/OT-Installing-Linux-in-a-Windows-7-Machine-tp5551998p5554237.html > Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599 > Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" > Dr Victor Lazzarini Senior Lecturer Dept. of Music NUI Maynooth Ireland tel.: +353 1 708 3545 Victor dot Lazzarini AT nuim dot ie |
Date | 2012-03-11 11:23 |
From | luis jure |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
on 2012-03-10 at 23:43 Jim Aikin wrote: >When I downloaded Ubuntu, what I got was the Unity interface. I can sense, >dimly, that there might be reasons why it's not ideal, so now I've >downloaded xubuntu, which comes as an .iso file. However, I have no idea >on Earth what to do with it. Other than extract the contents, of course. you'll have to boot from it, so you should either burn the image to a CD, or put it on a usb flash drive. if you already have ubuntu, there's a specific tool to make a bootable usb drive, but can also do it from windows. i have an old 1GB drive that is ideal for this, much better than burning cds! i found these instructions on the web that seem to be fairly complete: http://blog.sudobits.com/2011/04/23/how-to-install-ubuntu-11-04-from-usb-or-cd/ >I used Package Manager to download Csound (5.13 ... oh, well). yes, i warned you about it... later on you'll learn to add "unstable" repositories, and you'll get 5.14... yay! >Package Manager told me Csound was installed, but Dash can't find it as >an app, which means that I have no idea how to run it. Possibly from the >terminal, yes. >but Unity "cleverly" doesn't display the actual directory structure in its >Windows-type file explorer my advice would be to get rid of unity as soon as possible. either install xubuntu, or try to find out if you can choose a different "desktop". most probably you can install xfce on top of your ubuntu, but since it is a new installation, perhaps it's cleaner to start again directly form xubuntu. >(in particular, there's no Applications directory, nor anything >resembling it), so I'll have to learn to use a few terminal commands to >even find the Csound files. type csound on the terminal and the command will be found. most probably all the executable files are under /usr/bin. try entering "which csound" (without the "). wherever it is, it'll be in the PATH (try "echo $PATH" on the terminal. remember: the terminal is your friend...) learning about the filesystem hierarchy is also illuminating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard >I also downloaded the most recent Csound 5.16 tarball from SourceForge. >What I now find is that the information Dave Phillips very kindly >provided for my new book about how to compile Csound in Linux doesn't >really tell me what to do. That discussion (on p. 26) begins, "Assuming >all of the necessary build tools are installed...." And already I'm lost. linux distributions based on binary packages (virtually all distributions) don't provide by default all the header files needed for compilation. those usually are found in packages ending with -dev. i don't remember exactly which packages you need for compiling csound, but i'm sure it's documented somewhere. you'll get help on this. >I don't actually NEED Linux at all, much less Csound running in Linux. >But I'm fairly curious about how the whole experience plays out. the experience can be very interesting... provided you get rid of unity (did i mention that already?) and learn how to use the command line and the basic unix tools. that's *my* idea of having fun with a computer! >I had a look around the Web for Ubuntu documentation, and found nothing >resembling a clear discussion of anything. it's funny, my experience is the opposite. i'm pretty sure ubuntu is the distributions with more users, most of them linux newbies, and there are plenty forums and blog discussing every virtually problem you might encounter using ubuntu (well, perhaps not with csound...). the "answers" and "solutions" offered are not always 100% reliable, though... good luck (and don't look back)! lj |
Date | 2012-03-11 14:00 |
From | Michael Gogins |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
I like Unity, and use it as my default computer user interface. I had to monkey with it to get it to behave, though. The first thing I did was to install Synaptic, which makes it much easier to find and install software packages for all sources. The second thing is to create icons on the startup bar or whatever it's called for the terminal,and for Synpatic. And of course for qtcreator and for CsoundQt and Emacs. Then I customized the file browser to show lists and to include the entire file system. None of this was particularly hard to do. What I like about Unity is that it gets out of the way and leaves me with more screen real estate. I find, unfortunately, that I have go through something like these steps on EVERY operating system I install these days. Regards, Mike On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:23 AM, luis jure |
Date | 2012-03-11 15:01 |
From | Dave Phillips |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
On 03/11/2012 03:43 AM, Jim Aikin wrote: > ... I also downloaded the most recent Csound 5.16 tarball from > SourceForge. What I now find is that the information Dave Phillips > very kindly provided for my new book about how to compile Csound in > Linux doesn't really tell me what to do. That discussion (on p. 26) > begins, "Assuming all of the necessary build tools are installed...." > And already I'm lost. While reading my own book, which is a chastening > experience, I have to say. Hi Jim, The information is there, just not in the best order (my fault, sorry about that). You want to start with the instructions on p.27 for acquiring the essential tools required for building software for Linux: sudo apt-get build-essential Then you can use apt-get to retrieve Csound's dependencies: sudo apt-get build-dep csound Now you can go to your Csound source directory and run the scons commands on p.26. I hope that helps. Btw, I haven't built the most recent versions of Csound, I'm not sure what - if anything - has changed wrt the Linux build process. Also btw, I'll be at LAC. :) Best, dp > I should have gone through this learning process six months ago, > shouldn't I? To some extent I'm just whining. (Whining being one of my > less attractive specialties.) I don't actually NEED Linux at all, much > less Csound running in Linux. But I'm fairly curious about how the > whole experience plays out. I had a look around the Web for Ubuntu > documentation, and found nothing resembling a clear discussion of > anything. I'm starting to wonder if the Linux version of RTFM is AYSA > (ask your system administrator). -- View this message in context: > http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/OT-Installing-Linux-in-a-Windows-7-Machine-tp5551998p5554237.html > Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599 > Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here To unsubscribe, > send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" |
Date | 2012-03-11 15:18 |
From | Steven Yi |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] Re: [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
This is so nice that you all will be at LAC! Very much looking forward to seeing you there! On Mar 11, 2012 3:02 PM, "Dave Phillips" <dlphillips@woh.rr.com> wrote:
On 03/11/2012 03:43 AM, Jim Aikin wrote: |
Date | 2012-03-11 17:48 |
From | Panos Katergiathis |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
Sorry for intruding, but what is this document that Jim and dp refer to? Panos On Mar 11, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Dave Phillips wrote: > On 03/11/2012 03:43 AM, Jim Aikin wrote: > >> ... I also downloaded the most recent Csound 5.16 tarball from SourceForge. What I now find is that the information Dave Phillips very kindly provided for my new book about how to compile Csound in Linux doesn't really tell me what to do. That discussion (on p. 26) begins, "Assuming all of the necessary build tools are installed...." And already I'm lost. While reading my own book, which is a chastening experience, I have to say. > > Hi Jim, > > The information is there, just not in the best order (my fault, sorry about that). You want to start with the instructions on p.27 for acquiring the essential tools required for building software for Linux: > > sudo apt-get build-essential > > Then you can use apt-get to retrieve Csound's dependencies: > > sudo apt-get build-dep csound > > Now you can go to your Csound source directory and run the scons commands on p.26. > > I hope that helps. Btw, I haven't built the most recent versions of Csound, I'm not sure what - if anything - has changed wrt the Linux build process. > > Also btw, I'll be at LAC. :) > > Best, > > dp > > > > > > > > > > > >> I should have gone through this learning process six months ago, shouldn't I? To some extent I'm just whining. (Whining being one of my less attractive specialties.) I don't actually NEED Linux at all, much less Csound running in Linux. But I'm fairly curious about how the whole experience plays out. I had a look around the Web for Ubuntu documentation, and found nothing resembling a clear discussion of anything. I'm starting to wonder if the Linux version of RTFM is AYSA (ask your system administrator). -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/OT-Installing-Linux-in-a-Windows-7-Machine-tp5551998p5554237.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599 Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" > > > > Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599 > Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" > |
Date | 2012-03-11 17:55 |
From | Dave Phillips |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
On 03/11/2012 01:48 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: > Sorry for intruding, but what is this document that Jim and dp refer to? > > Hi Panos, Jim's excellent book Csound Power, it's listed on Amazon at : http://www.amazon.com/Csound-Power-Jim-Aikin/dp/1435460049/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331488411&sr=1-1 Best, dp |
Date | 2012-03-11 18:04 |
From | Panos Katergiathis |
Subject | Re: [Csnd] [OT] Installing Linux in a Windows 7 Machine |
Oh.. i have the book.... I was just imagining that there were instructions for installing on Ubuntu in another document? Are there? Panos On Mar 11, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Dave Phillips wrote: > On 03/11/2012 01:48 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: >> Sorry for intruding, but what is this document that Jim and dp refer to? >> >> > > Hi Panos, > > Jim's excellent book Csound Power, it's listed on Amazon at : > > http://www.amazon.com/Csound-Power-Jim-Aikin/dp/1435460049/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331488411&sr=1-1 > > Best, > > dp > > > > > > > > Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599 > Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" > |