Rosegarden
14th November, 2009
Rosegarden 10.02 alpha is now available for testing in advance of the planned release in Feburary 2010
1st June, 2009
The TYPO3 Agentur provides development sponsorship
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2nd February, 2009
Release 1.7.3 of Rosegarden is now available
23rd March, 2007
Dave Phillips reviews Rosegarden for Linux Journal
15th March, 2007
The Rosegarden Handbook, the online help for Rosegarden, is now on the web as well as in Rosegarden!

How to get Rosegarden

The Rosegarden development team makes Rosegarden available in source code form, to be compiled after download.

Download the Rosegarden source distribution.

We don't make ready-to-run binaries; you should get those as packages tailored for a particular Linux distribution.

Rosegarden is a complex program that requires numerous libraries and services that vary from one Linux distribution to another. It is also advisable to run Rosegarden on a Linux system that is well tuned for interactive and audio applications. For these reasons, it is not practical at this time for the Rosegarden team to provide installable packages for the many Linux distributions available. Here's where you should look instead:

Distribution packages

Installable binary packages for many major Linux distributions are available via the distributions' standard package repositories. Please consult your distribution's documentation for more details on how to obtain and install packages from these repositories.

Note: Rosegarden benefits greatly from running on a system that is well tuned for audio and low-latency use. Many distributions have at least one specialised low-latency kernel package available via some sort of additional multimedia distribution or repository; consider using one of these. For example, Ubuntu -> Ubuntu Studio; Debian -> 64 Studio or Musix; Fedora -> PlanetCCRMA; OpenSUSE -> JAD. In most cases the choice of a multimedia distribution will make no difference to which version of Rosegarden you can use: it will affect the type of Linux kernel and other audio services available, and consequently how well Rosegarden will run.


    Distro release   Rosegarden version   Available via 
 
Ubuntu
 9.10 (Karmic Koala)   Rosegarden v1.7.3   Community-supported Packages 
 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)   Rosegarden v1.7.2   Community-supported Packages 
 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)   Rosegarden v1.7.0   Community-supported Packages 
 8.04.3 LTS (Hardy Heron)   Rosegarden v1.6.1   Community-supported Packages 
 
Debian
 Debian Unstable   Rosegarden v1.7.3 
 Debian Testing   Rosegarden v1.7.3 
 Debian Stable   Rosegarden v1.7.0 
 Debian Oldstable   Rosegarden v1.4.0 
 
OpenSUSE
 OpenSUSE   Rosegarden v1.7.3  Packman repository
 
Arch Linux
 Arch Linux   Rosegarden v1.7.3  Extra repository
 
Gentoo
 Gentoo   Rosegarden v1.7.3  Portage