Help with Install

[StarCat]

Could someone tell me how to proceed with installing an application from a script?
This is the app:
http://uazu.net/sbagen/#dl_src
I have the folder which contains the mk script.
Not sure how to proceed.
e-mail turner.warren@gmail.com

Star Cat

[dibl]

Re: Help with Install

We're not at all strict about enforcing subject-matter relevance on this Forum, StarCat, but out of common courtesy I will offer my (unsolicited) opinion that this is an unlikely source of help for the problem that you have there. Compiling source code for an application is a very generic Linux question, totally irrelevant to Kubuntu (as opposed to any other Linux distribution), and moreover, you probably need to find some pointers on "packaging for Debian" or something like that, to convert that source into a Debian package that can be installed on *buntu. I personally have no clue ....

On the other, maybe you'll get lucky!

[Rog131]

Re: Help with Install

About SBaGen

Install "build-essential"
informational list of build-essential packages

This package contains an informational list of packages which are
considered essential for building Debian packages. This package also
depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to have the
build-essential packages installed.

If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to build the
package. Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
package depends on.

SBaGen has

Downloads

Available to download are:

* Full documentation,

=>

2.3: Installation for Linux and other UNIX users

Download the TGZ and unpack it somewhere. On Linux, the executable
can be built using the little 'mk' script:

>> ./mk
....

Here:

I have build-essential installed so after i have unpacked sbagen-1.4.4.tgz => /sbagen-1.4.4/.

In the /sbagen-1.4.4/ directory:

bash mk

That will run mk -script file and you should get "sbagen" executable.

Here ( i'm in the /media/sda2/rog/aaa/sbagen-1.4.4/):

$ /media/sda2/rog/aaa/sbagen-1.4.4/sbagen -h

SBaGen - Sequenced Binaural Beat Generator, version 1.4.4
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Jim Peters, http://uazu.net/, all rights
reserved, released under the GNU GPL v2. See file COPYING.

Usage: sbagen [options] seq-file ...
sbagen [options] -i tone-specs ...
sbagen [options] -p pre-programmed-sequence-specs ...

Options: -h Display this help-text
-Q Quiet - don't display running status
-D Display the full interpreted sequence instead of playing it
-i Immediate. Take the remainder of the command line to be
tone-specifications, and play them continuously
-p Pre-programmed sequence. Take the remainder of the command
line to be a type and arguments, e.g. "drop 00ds+"
-q mult Quick. Run through quickly (real time x 'mult') from the
start time, rather than wait for real time to pass

-r rate Select the output rate (default is 44100 Hz, or from -m)
-b bits Select the number bits for output (8 or 16, default 16)
-L time Select the length of time (hh:mm or hh:mm:ss) to output
for. Default is to output forever.
-S Output from the first tone-set in the sequence (Start),
instead of working in real-time. Equivalent to '-q 1'.
-E Output until the last tone-set in the sequence (End),
instead of outputting forever.
-T time Start at the given clock-time (hh:mm)

-o file Output raw data to the given file instead of /dev/dsp
-O Output raw data to the standard output
-W Output a WAV-format file instead of raw data
-m file Read audio data from the given file and mix it with the
generated binaural beats; may be ogg/mp3/wav/raw format
-M Read raw audio data from the standard input and mix it
with the generated binaural beats (raw only)

-R rate Select rate in Hz that frequency changes are recalculated
(for file/pipe output only, default is 10Hz)
-F fms Fade in/out time in ms (default 60000ms, or 1min)
-d dev Select a different output device instead of /dev/dsp
-c spec Compensate for low-frequency headphone roll-off; see docs

You could drop that executable to the /usr/local/bin/

< Linux's directory structure - 1.2 >

< /usr/local >

This is where you install apps and other files for use on the local machine. If your machine is a part of a network, the /usr directory may physically be on another machine and can be shared by many networked Linux workstations. On this kind of a network, the /usr/local directory contains only stuff that is not supposed to be used on many machines and is intended for use at the local machine only.

Most likely your machine isn't a part of a network like this, but it doesn't mean that /usr/local is useless. If you find interesting apps that aren't officially a part of your distro, you should install them in /usr/local. For example, if the app would normally go to /usr/bin but it isn't a part of your distro, you should install it in /usr/local/bin instead. When you keep your own programs away from the programs that are included in your distro, you'll avoid confusion and keep things nice and clean.

After this you could simply move to the /sbagen-1.4.4/examples/basics/ and give command:

sbagen prog-chakras-1.sbg

Outputting 16-bit audio at 44100 Hz with 4 4096-sample fragments, 92 ms per fragment

Links > FAQ: Installing from source

[StarCat]

Re: Help with Install

Rog 131, thanks for this detailed info.

SC