Howto: Install and use projectM music visualizer with pulseaudio support on Hardy

[surement]

2.0 is working fine for me, however cmake has trouble detecting that pulseaudio is installed. i had to take out the pulseaudio checking lines in the cmake scripts to get it to compile, but it works great other than that

How do you do that?? I have the same problem...

CMake Error at projectM-pulseaudio/CMakeLists.txt:55 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: Pulse Audio is NOT found. Please install pulse audio 0.9.8 or
greater from www.pulseaudio.org.

[bennyto]

hi everybody,

I get a nasty message when I try to make install ...

bennyto@ubuntulaptop:~/projectm/projectM-Trunk$ sudo make install
make: *** Pas de règle pour fabriquer la cible « install ». Arrêt.

what should I do ..?

ben

[aYs-Halo]

How do you do that?? I have the same problem...

CMake Error at projectM-pulseaudio/CMakeLists.txt:55 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: Pulse Audio is NOT found. Please install pulse audio 0.9.8 or
greater from www.pulseaudio.org.

same here..
i managed to take the lines out, but then i get an error during the install process @88%
"make[2]: *** [projectM-pulseaudio/CMakeFiles/projectM-pulseaudio.dir/qprojectM-pulseaudio.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [projectM-pulseaudio/CMakeFiles/projectM-pulseaudio.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2"

help anyone?

[nerdy_kid]

i made some .debs with checkinstall if anyone wants them.... (compiled with jaunty)

[fizyxnrd]

To those of you with problems finding the pulseaudio package information,
make sure that you have installed the libpulse-dev package. This should clear up any problems with ccmake finding pulseaudio.

If not, you will still need libpulse-dev (to provide pulseaudio headers), and you may need to modify the CMakeList.txt file.

Go to the projectM-pulseaudio directory and comment out the following lines from CMakeLists.txt

pkg_search_module(LIBPULSE REQUIRED libpulse>=0.9.8

(Line 29)
and

if (LIBPULSE_FOUND)
MESSAGE(STATUS "[projectM-pulseaudio] pulse audio detected.")
else (LIBPULSE_FOUND)
MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "ERROR: Pulse Audio is NOT found. Please install pulse audio 0.9.8 or greater from www.pulseaudio.org.")
endif(LIBPULSE_FOUND)

(lines 43-47)

Use cmake or ccmake as usual, make, and make install.

[nishant.singh28]

nishant@nishant-Studio:~$ projectM-pulseaudio
dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 

(<unknown>:14040): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory  of theme Azenis Icons has no size field

[projectM] config file: /home/nishant/.projectM/config.inp
No Textures Loaded from /usr/share/projectM/textures
[projectM] Allocating idle preset...
[PresetFactory] path is Geiss & Sperl - Feedback (projectM idle HDR mix).milk
[PresetFactory] url is idle://Geiss & Sperl - Feedback (projectM idle HDR mix).milk
unconnected: connecting... 
connectHelper:  "alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor" 
Segmentation fault

Now what?

[punkrockguy318]

nishant@nishant-Studio:~$ projectM-pulseaudio
dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 

(<unknown>:14040): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory  of theme Azenis Icons has no size field

[projectM] config file: /home/nishant/.projectM/config.inp
No Textures Loaded from /usr/share/projectM/textures
[projectM] Allocating idle preset...
[PresetFactory] path is Geiss & Sperl - Feedback (projectM idle HDR mix).milk
[PresetFactory] url is idle://Geiss & Sperl - Feedback (projectM idle HDR mix).milk
unconnected: connecting... 
connectHelper:  "alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor" 
Segmentation fault

Now what?

i'm getting the same error here as well

i've tried not including everything and i'm still getting the error

if i start it like 10 times in a row it will start but otherwise it will fail with with either that error or a segfault at start

[arrrghhh]

I believe this is in the repo's now - have you tried installing just "libvisual-projectm"?

[punkrockguy318]

I believe this is in the repo's now - have you tried installing just "libvisual-projectm"?

libvisual-projectm is sort of useless

projectM-pulseaudio is where its at

[ThatBum]

E0: Things in red are obsolete.

Holy God, thanks for telling me about checkinstall, it is INCREDIBLY useful.

I made a deb of projectM using the latest svn using checkinstall, which I assume is 2.0 (doesn't say in about!).

For people who don't want to download the svn and compile and risk breaking something and all that, I have the package attached here. I didn't put any dependencies in it because, well, I don't know them, so you're on your own with that.

Oh, it's 32 bit. I don't have a 64 bit machine around, so eh. I don't think you can set the architecture in checkinstall.

Remember, I called the package projectm, so to uninstall it, run

dpkg -r projectm 
or
apt-get remove projectm
or
apt-get purge projectm

as root

Thanks all. Beats the hell out of Rhythmbox's GOOM and monoscope.

One more thing, I'm just asking, is there a preset kinda like VLC's spectrometer out there? It's really informative.

E1: Ah shoot, it won't let me upload debs. I'll put it in a zip.

E2: And while I'm at it, will someone tell me what in Sam Hill this "Easter Egg Parameter" does? Or is it a programmer's secret?

E3 : I gave the deb to a friend, it didn't install some libs. Specifically, when running projectM-pulseaudio from a terminal, it asked for these:

• libprojectM-qt.so.1 (symlink of libprojectM-qt.so.1.10)
• libprojectM.so.2 (symlink of libprojectM.so.2.00)
• libQtOpenGL.so.4 (symlink of libQtOpenGL.so.4.5.2)

I Skype'd him these libs, and on his end he moved them to /usr/lib and made the appropriate symlinks. Then it worked fine, albeit slow because of his hardware, but that's besides the point.

I made a new deb that seems to work. The other one didn't appear to have the libs in it, according to the Included Files tab. The only thing is that is doesn't make the GNOME launcher in the menu though, but no big deal. The icon installs to /usr/share/pixmaps like it's supposed to, so just manually make a launcher.

For those who installed the first one, don't worry, it still installed to /usr, just uninstall and reinstall with this package.

This has been quite the learning experience. Thanks for writing such through instructions!

E4: Now I made a deb out of the tarball from the SourceForge projectM, 2.0.1.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectm/files/