Installing applications

You are done with the hard stuff. At this point you have a machine that has a low latency kernel, matching alsa drivers and it has been tuned to get the best possible performance.

Now you have to install the actual applications and start having fun!

One way to do this is to just go ahead and browse the following pages. Each package includes a link to the web site of the package (where you can usually find more information on how to use it), a brief description of what it does, which version is hosted at Planet CCRMA and on which releases of RedHat it is currently available, and of course, the apt-get incantation you need to get it installed.

If you want to install almost everything in one go there is a shortcut you can take. There are two lists of applications that include most of the stuff in Planet CCRMA, one (this link points to the 9 version) includes only audio related applications, the other (this link points to the 9 version) includes both audio and video applications. You can install all those packages by installing the corresponding rpm through apt-get. For audio applications only type:

apt-get install planetccrma-audioapps

If you also want the video related applications type:

apt-get install planetccrma-audiovideoapps

After the first install subsequent ``apt-get dist-upgrade'' commands will update to a newer version of the required package list, if there is one, and will pull any new packages that made it into the list (but it will not erase any packages that are no longer in the list). As long as you have one of these packages installed you will not be able to individually erase applications that are listed as requirements. You can, at any point, erase either planetccrma-audioapps or planetccrma-audiovideoapps and take manual control of which applications are installed or removed.

There are two additional virtual packages you can install. They will install the developer packages that allow you to rebuild any of the source rpms or build other packages that are not part of Planet CCRMA but need them.

apt-get install planetccrma-audioapps-devel

If you also want the video related developer packages type:

apt-get install planetccrma-audiovideoapps-devel

Have fun!!