Installing Planet CCRMA on RedHat 9 or Fedora Core 1

The Planet CCRMA package collection resides in an apt (Advanced Package Tool) repository that can be accessed through the Internet. It is also available as a set of cdroms that contain a snapshot of the repository.

If your audio workstation has a fast network connection to the world you can install Planet CCRMA by connecting directly to the repository or one of its mirrors. If your fast network connection is somewhere else, or if you have a connection, but it is dial-up (and therefore slow), you may want to download the Planet CCRMA cdrom images first, burn them into cdroms and sneaker-net them home before starting the install process.

Installing Planet CCRMA is easy. You will be guided through the install process in the following pages. To summarize, you will first manually install apt (Advanced Package Tools), apt will be used for the rest of the installation and provides a much nicer user interface to package management than the rpm layer. After apt is up and running you will install and configure a new low latency kernel and the ALSA sound drivers. And once the kernel and sound drivers are working it is just a matter of browsing the package repository pages and installing what you find interesting (or installing a single virtual package that will pull in almost all of the audio or audio and video applications). Apt keeps track of package dependencies and will install not only the package you want but also anything else that is not in your machine and is needed to make that package work.

If you are planning on doing a network based installed jump ahead to the section that deals with installing apt.

Otherwise go to the next section and download the cdrom images.