[PlanetCCRMA] Rosegarden won't start

Bengt Månsson bemaa@cntw.com
Fri Dec 5 11:38:01 2003


I'm sorry if I wasn't precise enough.
The command I used was actually i386-redhat-linux-rosegardensequencer
/Bengt

On 5 Dec 2003, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> > I use Rh7.3 and have installed, I think, all required packages.
> > I just did apt-get update and apt-get check with no errors.
> > 
> > I can use alsaplayer to play a wav file ok, but I cannot get rosegarden to
> > start
> > I try with rosegardensequencer and it says
> > cannot connect to jack server
> > initialised MIDI subsystem
> > 
> > then nothing
> >
> > With alsa-patch-bay I can see rosegarden connected to ES1371
> > rpm -Va gives me no clues
> 
> If your rosegarden version is the latest (should be 0.9.5-1) then you
> just found (indirectly) a packaging error I made on 7.3. The binaries
> are incorrectly named (do a "ls /usr/bin/*rosegarden" to see what I
> mean). 
> 
> You must have a previously installed version of rosegarden, otherwise
> "rosegarden" should return (with only the Planet CCRMA 7.3 rpm
> installed) a "command not found" error. 
> 
> A temporary workaround (while I redo the package) is, as root:
>   cd /usr/bin
>   ln -s i386-redhat-linux-rosegarden rosegarden
>   ln -s i386-redhat-linux-rosegardensequencer rosegardensequencer
> You may have to remove whatever older rosegarden executables you have
> there before trying to create the links. It is probably wise to remove
> the links before upgrading to the fixed package later today. 
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience... these days I hardly ever check running
> the programs when building on 7.3 (too many os's, too little time). 
> -- Fernando
> 
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