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InstallingSolfege

Installing on MS Windows should be easy. Just download and run the installer from http://www.solfege.org. You can email the mailing list solfege-devel@lists.sourceforge.net if you have any questions about installing the program.

Linux users can try the the autopackage provided on http://www.solfege.org. An auto package is a distribution neutral binary package that will work on most linux distributions for i386 compatible computers.

If you for some reason need to compile the program yourself, then I suggest you check the README and INSTALL files included in the source tarball.

I (TomCato) really do depend on users of all the different linux distros to help me making the list of packages required to build and install solfege, and to build binary packages.

The page Sound setup has some more info that might be worth reading.

Debian

See Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 6.06

You can install it using Synaptic. If that is too simple for you, try

            sudo apt-get install solfege

If you can start the program, but there is no sound

            sudo apt-get install timidity 

might help (if timidity is set as midi file player in the sound setup of Solfege).

Note that your /etc/apt/sources.list has to contain the universe sources to install these two programs from the Ubuntu sources. If you do not know what this means, see the Ubuntu website and read about Synaptic for further information.

Suse 9.0

A binary package for Suse 9.0 used to be available from http://www.solfege.org. But nobody has requested it after I dropped it and only provided an autopackage. So I guess the autopackage works fine for Suse 9.0 (and newer).

Slackware 10.0

Here is how to get gnome-python fully working on Slackware 10. Go to http://www.linuxpackages.net and download the pyorbit, pygtk and gnome-python packages -- a search box is provided on the website. Install them using "installpkg" in the following order - pyorbit, pygtk, gnome-python. Then run "/sbin/ldconfig" to update shared libraries.

Then simply "./configure" "make" and "make install"

MacOSX

Christmas present 2007: there is now a validated package in fink unstable distribution. Installing solfege on a Mac OS X (10.4 or 10.5) is as simple as

0) install the Xcode tools from your OSX install CD, and also the X11.pkg package (not always done by default). Leopard users should also update to http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.1, as explained on the fink homepage http://fink.sourceforge.net/

1) download http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fink/fink-0.27.7.tar.gz

2) open a terminal (click in /Applications/Utilities)

3) in the terminal window type

  cd Downloads (or Desktop, or whatever directory name your .tar.gz file ended up into)
  tar zxf fink-0.27.7.tar.gz
  cd fink-0.27.7
  ./bootstrap

4) use default answers to all questions, except when asked whether to use untable distribution: answer "Yes". If you missed it, you can go through the questions again afterwards by typing

   /sw/bin/fink configure

5) when this is over, type in the terminal window

  /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh

Then close the terminal and start a new one to activate the pathsetup changes. Then:

  fink selfupdate

6) when all packages have been updated, type (always in the terminal):

  fink install solfege

7) when you want to use solfege, just open a terminal and type

  solfege

This should be it! It may seem complicated to those who never opened a terminal window, but, hey, you have installed a full fink distribution in the process: all unix goodies are now at your fingertips, just a

  fink install my_beloved_unix_goodie

away!!! To see how much that is, try

  fink list

or limit your search with a keyword, eg

  fink apropos midi

and get more info on a goodie with

  fink info mma

(yes this particular one is cool).

"Merry Christmas to all Mac Users, and a happy year 2008 full of musical training!"

Jean

"For the record, here is an older attempt to play midi files without qtplay, using an applescript by Stephane:"

Edit ~/.solfegerc, and in section [sound] type the following lines:

  midi_player=/usr/bin/env foo="%s" /usr/bin/osascript ~/Library/Application\ Support/solfege/macplaymidi.scpt
  type=external-midiplayer

The midi_player command seems complicated but the %s must be there even if we don't need it, python will complain if it can't replace it with the filename of the temporary midifile... Basically, this will enable solfege to use quicktime as a sequencer through an applescript. Here is the source of the applescript (macplaymidi.scpt):

   tell application "QuickTime Player"
        ignore auto play
        if exists (movie "solfegetmp.mid") then
                close movie "solfegetmp.mid" saving no
        end if
        open location {"file:///tmp/solfegetmp.mid"}
        rewind movie "solfegetmp.mid"
        play movie "solfegetmp.mid"
   end tell

You can grab it here in a source form:

http://www.tls.cena.fr/~conversy/tmp/macplaymidi.applescript

and save it in ~/Library/Application\ Support/solfege/

Relaunch it. It should work.

Pbs: the rhythm exercises seem to have a different structure, so they sound weird...

Stephane.