[Sugar-devel] Fw: Sugar on a Stick - and OLPCsound

[Peter Robinson]

I a couple of days you should be able to do the following from the terminal:
su -
yum upgrade

And it should just pull it in.

Peter


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the hint, Peter. I am eager to try csound 5.10.1 as it contains a
> feature that 5.08 lacks, and that I'd really like to use (i.e., multiple
> MIDI controllers).
>
> However, as a newbee to Linux, I've no idea how this is done, particularly
> about how to do this within SoaS.
>
> Hopefully, I'd only need to download csound 5.10.1 somehow and install it to
> SoaS. (Incidentally, my primary OS is Windows XP.)
>
> Can you point me to basic instructions?
>
> Also: any idea as to when SoaS will incorporate Csound 5.10.1? (That would
> be *great* for me!)
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Fw: Sugar on a Stick - and OLPCsound
>
>
>> Can you possibly try csound 5.10.1 from F11 (same as SoaS). My
>> understanding from various conversations about the difference between
>> olpcsound and csound in Fedora was that it was forked because the
>> version of csound was so old. That is no longer the case.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Art Hunkins<abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi (a newbee here) -
>>>
>>> Below is a mail sent to the Csound developers listserv, seemingly about a
>>> difference between build 802 on the OLPC, and SoaS. The difference leaves
>>> those of us working with Victor Lazzarini's csndsugui (a git project and
>>> Python utility for Csounders) dead in the water.
>>>
>>> Has any developer here an idea of the problem and what it will take to
>>> solve
>>> it? Specifically, are there any differences between SoaS and the current
>>> Sugar implementation on the OLPC that could be responsible?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insight.
>>>
>>> Art Hunkins
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
>>> To: <csound-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 10:21 PM
>>> Subject: Sugar on a Stick - and OLPCsound
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've been enjoying learning and working with Sugar on a Stick, which is
>>>> Sugar (the OLPC's) software loaded onto a 1gb USB drive. Booting from
>>>> this
>>>> "stick" transforms any Mac, Linux or PC effectively into an OLPC
>>>> (running
>>>> Sugar). Makes a handy development system.
>>>>
>>>> At any rate, my new OurMusic activity runs fine on the OLPC, but aborts
>>>> on
>>>> SoaS (Sugar on a Stick). I then ran Victor's Waves activity, which
>>>> exhibits the same behavior as did mine. Interestingly, the TamTam
>>>> activities run fine on both systems. Also, the version of Csound,
>>>> 5.08.91
>>>> is identical. (Probably irrelevent info: the version of libsndfile for
>>>> SoaS is 1.0.17; however, between Sugar v 8.1 and 8.2.1 I note that the
>>>> versions changed from 1.0.17-2.fc7 to 1.0.17-3.fc9 (Fedora core changing
>>>> from 7 to 9).)
>>>>
>>>> I fear some incompatibility involving libsndfile and the Csound API, and
>>>> perhaps csndsugui? At any rate, those of us using these tools with SoaS,
>>>> are presently dead in the water.
>>>>
>>>> Below is the complete log generated by Waves.activity.
>>>>
>>>> Art Hunkins
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25: DeprecationWarning:
>>>> the
>>>> sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
>>>>
>>>> import sha
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>
>>>> File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 21, in <module>
>>>>
>>>> main.main()
>>>>
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py", line
>>>> 105,
>>>> in main
>>>>
>>>> module = __import__(module_name)
>>>>
>>>> File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Waves.activity/waves.py", line 1, in
>>>> <module>
>>>>
>>>> import csndsugui
>>>>
>>>> File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Waves.activity/csndsugui.py", line 36,
>>>> in
>>>> <module>
>>>>
>>>> import csnd
>>>>
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/csnd.py", line 7, in <module>
>>>>
>>>> import _csnd
>>>>
>>>> ImportError: /usr/lib/libcsnd.so.5.1: undefined symbol:
>>>> csoundGetInputBuffer
>>>>
>>>
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