Installing the latest stable version of Rosegarden from svn source

NOTE: This page is a bit outdated. There are other pages around the wiki that are a bit newer that you might want to check. The page about setting up Eclipse begins with a more current approach to getting the latest source.

These instructions should show howto install development version Rosegarden Trunk to a freshly installed distribution.

Install first subversion.

sudo apt-get install subversion

Download (takes 122 Mb of disk space) the source of the latest development version of rosegarden) using subversion.

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/rosegarden/code/trunk/rosegarden rosegarden

or if you have a sourceforge account, checkout with (untested)

svn checkout svn://<username>@svn.code.sf.net/p/rosegarden/code/trunk/rosegarden rosegarden

First, install dependencies

sudo apt-get install autoconf g++ libqt4-dev ladspa-sdk liblircclient-dev libjack0.100.0-dev jackd libasound2-dev xutils-dev 

Note: while building on Karmic Koala the following dependencies were missing:

sudo apt-get install dssi-dev liblo0-dev liblrdf0-dev libfftw3-dev libsndfile1-dev libsamplerate0-dev

After installing the dependencies, generate (again) the configure script, run it and compile the source

sh ./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make

Before running Rosegarden, install couple of necessary packages

sudo apt-get install flac qjackctl sox

Install LilyPond either with

sudo apt-get install lilypond

or, if you do not want to install TeX (extra ~150 Mb) which is not necessary, download stable (2.12.*) LilyPond installing binary. Find out what is the latest stable LilyPond version with command

wget http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86/ -O -

Download then the latest version and install it

wget http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-x86/lilypond-2.12.2-1.linux-x86.sh
sudo sh ./lilypond-2.12.2-1.linux-x86.sh

You probably want software synthesis, install thus e.g. timidity and freepats

sudo apt-get install timidity freepats

Now we are ready to run Rosegarden!

Start Rosegarden…

rosegarden

If you would like to have Rosegarden translated into your language, see how to add or update translation.