Voodoo Tracker, Help!

[thelonegunmen]

Hi, I'm new around here, I just downloaded Voodoo tracker for Linux and I have Kubuntu. I'm used to Windows, where ya just double click on things and it starts right up, however for some reason I guess this is not the route that is pursued by this compilation of Voodoo Tracker, it's "executable" does not execute, instead, it does nothing, the installation instruction talk about opening it up in Linux, but I don't understand what it's talking about, is it talking about a command prompt or something? I have no idea, here's the link to the installation instructions, hopefully someone here who uses both this OS and Voodoo knows what I'm talking about.

http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/d...tallationlinux

Any help is greatly appreciated.

-Jimmy

[thelonegunmen]

Re: Voodoo Tracker, Help!

Anybody know anything about this? I'm familiar with the program, I understand it just fine, but I've never used it on this OS, just wondering how I would run the executable, because I can't simply click on it, do I need to get the source code and recompile it? Or maybe get the windows version and use wine?

[shaunehunter]

Re: Voodoo Tracker, Help!

hey bud!

just follow the instructions they gave you and it will work. I just tried it.

The instructions are from the terminal (comand prompt). mabye I can help clarify whats going on during these steps.

> cd install-dir
means go to the directory you want it to be installed. cd means"change directory" and "install-dir" it just a place holder for where you want the program to go.

> tar -zxvf voodoo-x86Linux-0.9.5.tar.gz
this command decompresses the archive into a directory call voodoo-x86Linux-0.9.5

> cd ./voodoo-x86Linux-0.9.5
changes your current directory to the one you just created

> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/bin/
This links to the shared objects on your system that the program needs to run (the most important step in this set up)

> bin/voodoo
starts your program.

there you go, up and atom in five short commands.

a few tips:

If you extract the archive to say /usr/local/bin. The program will be in your command PATH. This means you will only have to type "voodoo" to start the program, rather than typing the entire directory structure to the program (ei. /home/shaun/voodoo-x86Linux-0.9.5/bin/voodoo)

Also you can create an icon in kicker (the start menu type thing) by right klicking the "K", picking "menu editor" and creating an entry for it.

In linux, because the variety in distrobutions and approches there is no standard binary package format for programs. many companies will only a generic binary archive as they don't know what distro you using and they don't whant to support just one and can't support all with distro specific pakaging (.rpm, .deb, etc.)

It's not really an issue if you mainly use free software or some popular non-free stuff (such as flash player) all you usually just fire up kpackagekit and pick what you want in there.
better than touring around the internet for .exe's imho.

I hope this helps!

[thelonegunmen]

Re: Voodoo Tracker, Help!

Thanks, I'll try that out.

[thelonegunmen]

Re: Voodoo Tracker, Help!

Ok, any time I do any of that I get this:

"jimmy@TheLoneGunmen:~$ > cd install-dir
install-dir: command not found"

What am I not doing right here? Also, I have unpacked voodoo into a directory already and tried several different ways to call it up through Konsole and it doesn't work, I keep getting the same message, what's going on?

[vinnywright]

Re: Voodoo Tracker, Help!

if you'v allready unpacked it in a dir. you nead to cd into that dir. like say you unpacked it in /home/test then youd cd test and you will be in /home test provided you were in /home allready

so do

cd ~

that will put you in /home
then

cd test

you will know your thar as the promt will show it

like so

vinny@desktop:~$ cd test
vinny@desktop:~/test$

see

now you nead to replace test with ware you unpacked the .tar file at.

now pick up the instructions that shaunehunter gave ya at

> cd ./voodoo-x86Linux-0.9.5
changes your current directory to the one you just created

and go from thare. inother words you nead to get into the dir. ./voodoo-x86Linux-0.9.5
that was unpacked from the .tar file

and do the rest.

VINNY

[thelonegunmen]

Re: Voodoo Tracker, Help!

Well Vinny, I'm able to get this far:

"jimmy@TheLoneGunmen:~/voodoo-x86Linux-0.9.5$"

But after that if I try > bin/voodoo I get the same old message.

[thelonegunmen]

Re: Voodoo Tracker, Help!

Ya know what, I think I'll just go ahead and download the windows build and use wine.

[vinnywright]

Re: Voodoo Tracker, Help!

did ya do the

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/bin/

from within.. jimmy@TheLoneGunmen:~/voodoo-x86Linux-0.9.5$"

VINNY