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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"

Gentoo

There is a solfege ebuild on Gentoo's portage. To install the latest testing version, put solfege to package.keywords, then emerge solfege.

   echo "media-sound/solfege" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
   emerge solfege

That's all.

If you have problems with midi output, be sure that timidity is installed. If your sound card does not have sufficient midi support, you should activate eawpatches for timidity. Here's how to do it, the asterisk shows that it's active.

     # eselect timidity list
     Available TiMidity++ patchsets:
     [1]   eawpatches

     # eselect timidity update
     # eselect timidity list
     Available TiMidity++ patchsets:
     [1]   eawpatches *

MacOSX

See MacOSX for options.