Installing CDP8 on linux

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Hi,
I’m just install linux mint on an old Thinkpad and would like to install CDP8 on this machine. I’m following the Renoise CDP Tool, Installation Guide, The Renoise CDP Tool : An Installation Guide For Linux Users | Renoise and at the part of going in the dev folder, to load the makeprograms.sh script. I don’t see this script in the dev folder, only a bunch of folders.

How do I proceed?

blur            combine    filter    houskeep  newinclude  pv       sfutils     strange
cdp2k           distort    focus     include   newsfsys    pview    sndinfo     stretch
cdparams        editsf     formants  misc      pagrab      pvxio2   spec        submix
cdparams_other  env        grain     modify    paview      repitch  specinfo    synth
cdparse         extend     hfperm    morph     pitch       science  standalone  tabedit
CMakeLists.txt  externals  hilite    new       pitchinfo   sfsys    standnew    texture
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I have asked the archlinux-proaudio team to package CDP on Arch Linux below, but for several reasons, including the portaudio library, it has not yet worked out.
I don’t know if this will help you directly, but it might be a good idea to follow up.

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try pressing “CRTL + H” in your file manager :slight_smile:

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there’s no hidden files in top level of dev

5

I managed to install portaudio in the first part. Maybe I can continue on installing with your package and see if it works? Did you managed to install this on linux? Is there also a link to CDP 7, then maybe with that I can go through guide to get this install.

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I have not tried to install it, but you can try.
Packaging has another unique problem, but apart from that, it would help me too if I knew how to build it as a user.
I have asked for packaging to a kind project that might be willing to work on it, because I am convinced that this CDP tool is definitely a good one from the whole history of electronic music, including the academic component.

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Apparently there is a nix flake for CDP8, which might be useful as is or as a guideline for installing or creating a package.

Note, I haven’t tried this.

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Not really familiar with CDP8, otherwise I would help.

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err… what do I do with this? Nix flake?

10

Yes I totally agree. I tried this on the mac and really want to dive deeper into CDP. I really enjoyed electroacoustic music by Trevor Wishart and others. Back then CDP was not free and now it is.

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I spoke with the kind contributor who is doing the packaging and about that link. Apparently it was at least a hint. The time may be near when it will be packaged. Thanks for letting me know.

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Nix is a package manager that provides isolated build and dependency environments for software.

You can either

  • use nix itself to install software using flakes without worrying about dependencies or build steps
  • or read the flake.nix file that has the commands that are being run when building and figure out what you need to run manually on your own system