Eric Hedekar wrote:
Hmm, I've been using linux for the last four years and this is the first time anyone has ever told me about apt-file. Nearly every package I've ever needed to install from source has listed the dependencies.
You mean like a list of dependencies? http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/release/ says you need # source # dependency: libsndfile # ALSA, JACK, or OSS (you should already have one) # gcc, lex, yacc, make (you better have these) I know that this is not ubuntu specific, but please remember that there are lots of other linux distributions outthere, and maintaning a list of packages for redhat, suse, gentoo, slaxware, debian and ubuntu (aren't those the 6 biggest ones?) is not something we should ask the chuck developers...
I can see where you're coming from with the package list possibly not being maintained, but it'd still be better than nothing at all.
Then go ahead and make a list :-) I'll just not be using it...
I knew all along that the error messages are there for a reason, I just didn't understand what they were saying.
Ok. Did you actually read them or just think "oops, errors, I must have done something wrong"? No offence, but in my oppinion "error: jack/jack.h: No such file or directory" is quite easy to understand :-) This does not mean that things are
working fine. If audio enthusiasts such as myself need to know of obscure (maybe apt-file is not obscure,
It's not obscure, it's just cool :-)
and I've been living under a rock) linux admin commands to get ChucK installed then something is not working - the install interface.
Compiling a program from source is not that tricky, but compared with synaptic it's "linux admin", I agree. So either one sticks with the software available through synaptic or one learns to compile from source. I simply tried to help you understand, in a more general way, how to compile a piece of software, so that you'll know what to do next time you need to. -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk