Installation Under Ubuntu (beginner Question)

I just installed the latest version of Ubuntu. The first thing I tried to install was Renoise.
The installation seemed to go well but I cannot get Renoise to run.
If I try running it from the Applications/Sound&Video menu entry, I get an error dialog reading:

Could not launch “Renoise”
Failed to execute child process
“renoise” (No such file or directory)

If I use a terminal and navigate to /usr/local/bin and type renoise or ./renoise I get:

hjb@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ renoise
bash: /usr/local/bin/renoise: No such file or directory
hjb@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ ./renoise
bash: ./renoise: No such file or directory
hjb@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$

I added a new group called Audio, added myself as member and modified the etc/security/limits.conf file as follows:
@Audio - rtprio 99
@Audio - nice -10

but that didn’t have any effect.

It’s been years since I’ve worked with a Unix OS, so I’m at a loss as to what’s going wrong here.
Can anyone suggest something?
Thanks

Are you sure you followed the installation instruction correctly?

Basically download the archive (make sure you downloaded linux version), then unpack it.

Open terminal and go to that folder where you extracted the package contents, type:

sudo ./install.sh

It will ask your password, which you must supply, then it reports which actions were taken etc. Make sure you keep this info before checking whether renoise starts again, if it doesn’t, you could supply the installation log here and we could have more info on the issues.

Thanks for the help.
I had, when prompted the first time, let the Archive manager handle it (rather than saving the tar file and doing what you suggested). So I went back and uninstalled Renoise and downloaded it to my Desktop. Then moved it to my home directory. There I ran the following commands:

/usr/bin/bunzip2
then
tar -zxvf

I went into the Renoise directory and executed

sudo ./install.sh

At the bottom of the output of that command I got:

Checking audio configuration…
PAM seems to be installed and configured for audio applications.
If you nevertheless have problems with ALSA or Jack (such as crackles or too high latencies) take a look at ‘http://tutorials.renoise.com/Renoise/SettingUpLinux/#PAM’ for help please…

Installation of Renoise 2.1.0 SUCCEEDED.

Then I tried to run the following command:

hjb@ubuntu:~/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ renoise
bash: /usr/local/bin/renoise: No such file or directory

and as root:

root@ubuntu:/home/hjb/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo# renoise
bash: /usr/local/bin/renoise: No such file or directory

My next step, unless you have another suggestion is to completely unistall Ubuntu and start from scratch.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the reply.
I uninstalled renoise, re-downloaded the tar file, and extracted to the Desktop (is that an acceptable place to put it? Or should it go in /usr/local/bin? Or is /usr/local/bin only for system executables?)

Then I tried what you suggested:

hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/
[sudo] password for hjb:

and then

hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ sudo sh install.sh
Fixing file permissions…
Installing shared resources…
Installing the executable…
Linking the executable…
Installing the man file…
Registering MIME types…
Installing icons…
Installing desktop-menu shortcuts…
Checking audio configuration…
PAM seems to be installed and configured for audio applications.
If you nevertheless have problems with ALSA or Jack (such as crackles or too high latencies) take a look at ‘http://tutorials.renoise.com/Renoise/SettingUpLinux/#PAM’ for help please…

Installation of Renoise 2.1.0 SUCCEEDED.

But I still get the same error when trying to run renoise from the command line:

hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ renoise
bash: /usr/local/bin/renoise: No such file or directory
hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ ./renoise
bash: ./renoise: No such file or directory
hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$

Another clue:
hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ ldd renoise
not a dynamic executable

Thanks again for your help. I feel like I’m very close, just missing something simple.

First off, thanks again for your help (and patience with a newbie).

The 2 renoise files were where you said they’d be - in /usr/local/bin.

I first tried running directly from the Desktop:

hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ ./renoise
bash: ./renoise: No such file or directory
hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ renoise
bash: /usr/local/bin/renoise: No such file or directory

And then I tried running from /usr/local/bin:

hjb@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ ls
renoise renoise-2.1.0
hjb@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ ./renoise
bash: ./renoise: No such file or directory
hjb@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ renoise
bash: /usr/local/bin/renoise: No such file or directory

Then, just to be more thorough, I copied the renoise binary from the install directory into /usr/local/bin, overwriting the one that were there. Same results as above (I tried running it both from the Desktop and from /usr/local/bin). Finally, I tried using sudo but got the same results.

Once again, thanks for the help.

Can you “ls -l” in those folders and post the results?
I just wonder if the files are really there…

Here are the results of the directory listings:

hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ ls -l
total 22736
drwxr-xr-x 3 hjb hjb 4096 2009-05-26 07:56 Installer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hjb hjb 7225 2009-05-26 07:56 install.sh
-rw-r–r-- 1 hjb hjb 6253 2009-05-26 07:56 LICENSE
-rw-r–r-- 1 hjb hjb 1053494 2009-05-26 07:56 Quickstart-Tutorial.pdf
-rw-r–r-- 1 hjb hjb 72768 2009-05-26 07:56 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hjb hjb 22082504 2009-05-26 07:56 renoise
drwxr-xr-x 11 hjb hjb 4096 2009-05-26 07:57 Resources
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hjb hjb 51 2009-05-26 07:56 uninstall.sh
hjb@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo$ cd /usr/local/bin
hjb@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ ls -l
total 43192
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hjb hjb 22082504 2009-05-26 07:56 renoise
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22082504 2009-07-07 16:05 renoise-2.1.0
hjb@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$

Just noticed that the renoise-2.1.0 file is owned by root. But su’ing to root and trying to run yields the same results.

This is so weird and frustrating - the file is there but for some reason it keeps telling me that there is “No such file or directory.”

Ha! No way you’re stupid.
Anyway, I certainly didn’t intentionally install the 64-bit OS. How can I determine for sure that I’m running the 32-bit version?

When I select System/System Monitor, I see a dialog window with the following information:

Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Release 9.04 (jaunty)
Kernel Linux 2.6.28-13-generic
GNOME 2.26.1

Hardware
etc.

How can I determine which OS I’m running?
Thanks.

Found the way to determine which OS I’m running and you are correct - it’s the 64-bit version:

root@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin# uname -m
x86_64

Am going to follow your instructions now.

Thanks so much.

Thanks again everyone for the help.

OK, I’ve made some progress. I did as was suggested:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

But now when I run renoise I get a segmentation fault (see below).

I noticed, in the link that you appended, that this has happened to others. Trying to follow the instructions there but when I download the file (http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/mai...ntu0.1_i386.deb) and let the GDebi Package Installer open the file I see:
Error: Wrong architecture ‘i386’

root@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin# renoise
Renoise LOG> ============================================================
Renoise LOG> Version : Renoise V2.1.0 (May 26 2009)
Renoise LOG> Date : 2009-07-07
Renoise LOG> Time : 19:12:11
Renoise LOG> OS : Linux version 2.6.28-13-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 UTC 2009

Renoise LOG> ============================================================
Renoise LOG> CPU: Found 1 enabled unit(s) with 2 core(s) / 2 logical processor(s) per unit. 2 cores are enabled in total.
Renoise LOG> Application: Showing the splash window…
Renoise LOG> StartupWindow: Initialiting the startup window…
Renoise LOG> Graphport: Initialising XThreads…
Renoise LOG> Graphport: Opening XDisplay ‘:0.0’ (configured via ‘DISPLAY’ env)…
Renoise LOG> Graphport: XDisplay was successfully opened
Renoise LOG> Graphport: Initializing Freeimage…
Renoise LOG> StartupWindow: Startup window successfully initialized…
Renoise LOG> Application: Initializing the API…
Renoise LOG> GraphPort: Loading cursor images (libXcursor is present)…
Renoise LOG> System: Running from ‘/usr/local/bin’…
Renoise LOG> GraphPort: Initializing the Font Engine…
Segmentation fault
root@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin# cd

I still recommend everyone to use 32bit OS until there is a stable release of 64bit Renoise. Not only will you run into troubles as described in this thread with 64bit linux, but also all 64bit LADSPA plugins are unusable, also, 64bit jack is unusable, you won’t be able to connect renoise to any other programs which are not 32bit aswell.

If there will be 64bit renoise, it won’t load 32bit VST’s again… Anyway… Yeah… 32bit OS is better idea for now.

Thanks again for the help.

I uninstalled the 64-bit version of Ubuntu and installed the 32-bit version. The installation of Renoise then went smoothly and all is running fine now.