Installing Jokosher
This page outline show to install Jokosher on your distribution. We are always keen for testing, so see this page for details of how to test the development snapshot of Jokosher.
Distribution Specific Packages
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From Source
Before you can run Jokosher on your system, you must ensure that the following dependencies are installed:
Library |
Version |
Python Libraries |
|
Python |
2.4 or greater |
Python-Cairo Bindings |
1.2.0 or greater |
Python-DBus Bindings |
0.71 or greater |
Python XML module |
0.8.4 or greater |
Python-Glade2 Bindings |
2.8 or greater |
Python-GTK2 Bindings |
2.8 or greater |
Python-Gstreamer Bindings |
0.10.6 or greater |
Python-Setuptools module |
0.6 or greater |
Python-Gnome2 Bindings (not required in 0.9SVN) |
2.16 or greater |
Gstreamer Libraries |
|
Gstreamer |
0.10.11 or greater |
Gnonlin |
0.10.6 or greater |
Base Plugins |
0.10.11 or greater |
Good Plugins |
0.10.5 or greater |
Ugly Plugins (optional for MP3 support) |
0.10.5 or greater |
Bad Plugins (optional for LADSPA effects support) |
0.10.4 or greater |
See also details for installing CVS GStreamer.
Once you have those dependencies installed, get the Jokosher 0.2 tarball from the the Jokosher download page. Unpack the tarball inside a new directory, and run the Jokosher/Jokosher file.
Development Version (from SVN)
The development version is recommended for testing purposes only. If you want the bleeding edge features, would like to help find bugs, and don't mind if Jokosher crashes and loses all your work, then the development version is for you. First you must ensure that you have all the dependencies installed. See the table in the previous section for the list of what you will need. In addition to the regular Jokosher dependencies, you will also need to install the Subversion client to allow you to check Jokosher out of source control. In Ubuntu/Debian install the subversion package.
Now you are ready to download Jokosher from SVN. To do this, run the following command:
svn checkout http://svn.jokosher.python-hosting.com/JonoEdit/trunk jokosher-trunk
Jokosher will then be downloaded to the new directory called jokosher-trunk/. You can now run Jokosher with the following command:
jokosher-trunk/Jokosher/Jokosher
Since you are now running the development version, new changes will be made everyday. To update Jokosher to the latest version run the following command:
svn up jokosher-trunk
Instrument Effects
Jokosher uses LADSPA effects for the instruments. These must be installed separately, preferably using your distribution package manager.
In Ubuntu, the following packages provide LADSPA effects usable in Jokosher: blop caps cmt fil-plugins mcp-plugins omins swh-plugins tap-plugins vcf-plugins