Miscellaneous F8 Installs

• Planet CCRMA [see home page -- yum install planetccrma-apps is working as of 2/6/08]
• yum install perl-XML-Twig [needed by Rosegarden]
• Tarball install of pd-qext-0.1.tar.gz
• yum install q-devel [needed by Rosegarden]
• yum install gtk-recordmydesktop [to make a video of a demo - this never worked]
• sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run to install free proprietary NVIDIA driver for the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 hardware on the HP Pavilion. This had to be done with the X server not running, which I did by changing the line ``id:5:initdefault:'' in /etc/inittab to ``id:3:initdefault:'' and rebooting. (Just exiting X with ctrl-alt-backspace did not pick up the new desired runlevel -- I expect there is an easier way to exit X and login to a console, but that's the best I've got for now). Note that the installation had to be repeated after a kernel upgrade from version 2.6.23 to 2.6.24 (the kernel interface needed to be rebuilt). The symptom was that the nvidia driver specified in /etc/X11/xorg.conf could not be loaded, and I had to revert back temporarily to the default driver nv (which happens if you let the system autoconfigure for you). It is easier to refuse autoconfiguration after a kernel upgrade, in which case you get a text login prompt, and you can login in text mode, type sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run, and recompile the driver interface immediately. (But again this does not work with latest F8 kernels, as of July 2008.)
• USB MIDI support for Oxygen 8 keyboard [not yet done]:
  • yum install fxload
  • wget http://homepage3.nifty.com/StudioBreeze/software/bin/usbmidi-20040829.tar.gz
  • See http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=190021&view=previous
• yum install usbutils [for lsusb command]
• Tarball install of raul, flowcanvas, patchage, which in turn required the following:
  • yum install glibmm24-devel
  • yum install gtkmm24-devel
  • yum install libgnomecanvasmm26-devel
  • yum install graphviz-devel
  • yum install lash-devel
  • yum install libglademm24-devel
• Install acroread rpm from Adobe
• yum install tk-devel [for scilab source compilation]
• yum install pd-extended [for pmpd]
• Install pd-gem:
  • sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
  • sudo rpm -import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
  • yum install pd-extended-extra [or yum install pd-gem]
• yum install kdewebdev [to try out the quanta HTML/CSS editor]
• yum install mplayer mplayer-gui xvidcore xine mjpegtools-libs libmms
  xine-lib-extras-nonfree gnome-mplayer gxine-mozplugin gxine vlc [Following advice on the net regarding playing standard media files -- requires /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo -- it is said that mplayer and vlc can play most formats.]
• To build CLAM from source:
  • yum install xerces-c-devel [pulls in xerces-c]
  • yum install libsndfile-devel
  • yum install libmad-devel
  • yum install id3lib-devel [pulls in id3lib]
  • yum install portaudio-devel
• yum install qt4-devel [NetworkEditor]

• yum install amarok [music librarian/player]

• (HP Notebook) yum install kmod-nvidia [need livna repo -- had to be repeated several times due to intermittent package mismatch error]

• yum install gnome-keyring-manager [I believe it is a Fedora F8 bug that this was not already installed, or perhaps a bug in the dependencies of other packages that expect to use the GNOME keyring.]

• yum install nvclock [to address my overheating NVIDIA GeForce chip on my HP notebook -- it turned out acroread was the culprit, starting up a thread in the background that heated up a CPU until the system shut down (somewhere around 100 degrees Celsius)]

• yum install gtkpod [to use an iPod]

• Unpack http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/webpub/latex2html-2006-1.tar.gz
  configure; make; make install;

• Messing around with XML:
  • yum install perl-XML-LibXML [supports DOM and XPath API]
  • yum install perl-XML-Handler-YAWriter [xmlpretty]
  • yum install PyXML [XML libraries for python]
  • yum install perl-SOAP-Lite [for XML over Web services]
  • yum install CPAN [for perl packages not listed by yum]
  • perl -MCPAN -e shell [login to CPAN]
  • i /SemanticDiff/ [find this package]
  • install XML::SemanticDiff [install this package]
  • install Test::More [required by above package]
  • install Test::Pod [desired by XML::SemanticDiff]
  • install Test::Pod::Coverage [desired by XML::SemanticDiff]
  • test XML::SemanticDiff [all tests this time]
  • install XML::Parser [update]
  • install CPAN [update]

• yum install unrar [for opening .rar archives]
• yum erase AdobeReader_enu [use evince instead of acroread to prevent CPU thermal runaway when viewing PDFs in Firefox]