How to install StepMania in Ubuntu 12.04LTS 64-bit

[FenrirXIII]

StepMania - basically Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) in a computer. keyboard, controller and even Dance Pad friendly. Great game for workingout or just unwinding.



Prerequisites:

• Internet Connection
• Meet StepMania system requirement/s.
• Download the 64-bit binary of StepMania
  
  • In this case, StepMania-v5.0-beta1a-linux64.tar.bz2
  
  

Package Dependencies

• libpng15.so.15
• libglew1.8

Step 1: Download the files


libpng15.so.15

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/overlay sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libpng1.5

libglew1.8
Although this package's release is for 12.10, libglew1.8 works perfectly in 12.04LTS

• 64-bit (Click link)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/po...ntu2_amd64.deb


download the .deb file, locate and install in Ubuntu Software Center.


or


If the link is broken, search the package in: www.ubuntuupdates.org


Step 2: Installing Stepmania-v5.0

• After downloading “StepMania-v5.0-beta1a-linux64.tar.bz2”, locate the file and move it on the Desktop
• Double click and Unzip (extract) StepStepMania-v5.0-beta1a-linux64.tar.bz2 to Desktop
  
  • here's a different variation on how to extract it via Terminal
  
  

cd Desktop tar -jxvf StepMania-v5.0-beta1a-linux64.tar.bz2

• Run the program (via Terminal)

cd Desktop/stepmania ./stepmania

THERE! It's running good... except maybe you want to clean it up a bit.

1. Neat Setup
2. Create a Launcher

1. Neat Setup

• Go to Desktop and open the stepmania folder.
  
  • Select all, Cut.
  
  
• Go to home folder and Show Hidden Files (View Tab > Show Hidden Files)
  
  • locate .stepmania-5.0 and open folder
    
    • Paste files here.
    
    
    
  
  
• Neat Setup Compete
  
  • You may delete the stepmania folder on the Desktop.
  
  

2. Create a Launcher

Google "StepMania Icon" and select a suitable icon and save it as "stepmania.png" in home folder /.stepmania-5.0

• sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/StepMania.desktop
  
  • password prompt
  
  
• Type/Copy the following:

[Desktop Entry] Version=5.0beta Type=Application Terminal=false StartupNotify=true Icon=/home/(YOUR_USERNAME)/.stepmania-5.0/stepmania.png Name=StepMania Comment=StepMania Exec=/home/YOUR_USERNAME)/.stepmania-5.0/stepmania Categories=Application; Games;

• SAVE and Close
  
  • If for some reason it won't save, click Save as... and save it on:
    
    • File System: /usr/share/applications
    
    
  
  

CONGRATULATIONS! You have successfully, manually installed StepMania


BONUS: ADDING SONGS!!!

• on the home folder, Show Hidden Folders and open .stepmania
  
  • CREATE a Songs folder
  
  
• On www.stepmania.com download songs on the Download category
  
  • extract your downloaded songs and put them in the Songs folder of the hidden .stepmania-5.0 folder located in the home folder when Show Hidden File is checked.
  
  

ENJOY


TIP:


There are some DDR .smzip out there. Search the web for more info.
With a controller or Dance Pad, Go to Options to configure button/key mapping.

[MSoles]

I did some alterations on your tutorial because I have a 32-bit version but it worked out none of the less.

Oh and here's one more tip for adding songs.

• If you already have a songs folder somewhere else and you want to add it to SM5, go to the home folder, Show Hidden Folders and open .stepmania and then open Save.

There should be a file called Preferences.ini open that with your text editing program (GEdit) and there should be a line saying.

AdditionalSongFolders=

now locate where your song is and then type it in

AdditionalSongFolders=/media/(YOUR HARD DISK DRIVE NAME)/(YOUR SONGS FOLDER)/Songs

Save the file and close your text editing program, run the Stepmania program and it'll load your songs that you told to find.

[Moses_Moore]

I just built Stepmania 5.x from source and I came to Ubuntu Forums to describe my pitfalls.

The prereq list is in the opening post is too short. It wasn't working for me until I found a mention in a Japanese-only mailing list about Stepmania about getting sound drivers working correctly.

• Get the tarball from http://sourceforge.net/settings/mirr...2a-src.tar.bz2
• cd $(mktemp -d)
• tar xjf /tmp/stepmania-5.*-src.tar.bz2
• cd stepmania-tip
• apt-get install libpng-dev libxrandr-dev libjpeg-dev libbz2-dev libvorbis-dev libmad0-dev libglew-dev libgtk2.0-dev libpulse-dev
• ./configure
• make
• sudo chown /opt $USER
• make install # ye gods why would I have to `sudo make install` ?
• sudo chown /opt root
• cd /top/stepmania\ 5/
• ./stepmania

If you do not have libpulse-dev installed, ./configure will not error out, but the compiled Stepmania will keep telling you 'device not found: /dev/dsp' and trying it with `padsp` will wedge the pulseaudio daemon something terrible.

It will look in $HOME/.stepmania-5.0/Songs/ for your song&step files. Without any Song files, some of the main menu settings will just send you to help files, which will want to open a webbrowser... but that doesn't work. (The stepmania website is down today anyways, some problem with Google Docs since they're using that for hosting?)

I was able to keep using the electro-body-music stuff I made for Stepmania 3.8.

[Espionage724]

I just built Stepmania 5.x from source and I came to Ubuntu Forums to describe my pitfalls.

The prereq list is in the opening post is too short. It wasn't working for me until I found a mention in a Japanese-only mailing list about Stepmania about getting sound drivers working correctly.

Just wanted to say thanks for this guide StepMania 5 seems to work fine for me after following these instructions on 13.10.

As for the make command, if my limited understanding is right, you could attach -j # onto it to use more cores for a faster compile (so make -j 4). Guess the general rule is to use a little less than double the CPU cores you have or something, but I used -j 6 without problem on a quad core system.