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

[Gryphen]

A easy to "get" over 1000 presets is to copy the contents of all of the preset folders in the source code folder to /usr/share/projectM/all.

Here are instructions if you want to create a shell script to do it for you

nano

paste in

#!/bin/bash

sudo mkdir /usr/share/projectM/all  
cd /usr/local/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/  #source location
sudo cp -f presets_milkdrop/* /usr/share/projectM/all  
sudo cp -f presets_milkdrop_200/* /usr/share/projectM/all  
sudo cp -f presets_test/* /usr/share/projectM/all  
sudo cp -f presets/* /usr/share/projectM/all  
sudo cp -f presets_milkdrop_104/* /usr/share/projectM/all  
sudo cp -f presets_projectM/* /usr/share/projectM/all 
sudo cp -f presets_yin/* /usr/share/projectM/all

Ctrl+o

save it with a name ending with .sh

chmod 777 [name].sh

./[the name you name chose].sh

[Psychoscorpic]

Hi "Humiliation"
I get the same error (using the 64bit DEB supplied here by enlight22)
Used Synaptic to "Remove completely" the libprojectm2 package and it's associate, but still same error.

Lucid 64bit, fresh install.

Ah! Discovered another projectm file was installed in Synaptic and killed it too. Re-ran the .DEB and all is as it should be! ProjectM now appears in Sound & Video and settings worl fine.
Used the Menu (M) to install the pile of Milk presets that came in the archive. I'm smiling again now.

[jchedstrom]

It took me about 2 hours to get projectm installed on Ubuntu 10.04. These are my solutions for specific problems.

During ccmake "libvisual 0.4 not found": assuming you've already install all of the libvisual components properly, comment out with #'s anything to do with verifying libvisual installation inside of 'projectM-libvisual/CCMakeLists.txt' and ' projectM-libvisual-alsa/CCMakeLists.txt'...

#pkg_search_module(LIBVISUAL REQUIRED libvisual-0.4) 
 
if (LIBPROJECTM_FOUND) 
MESSAGE (STATUS "[projectM-libvisual] projectM detected.") 
else(LIBPROJECTM_FOUND) 
MESSAGE (FATAL_ERROR "projectM NOT detected. Please install the projectM  module or build from the top level projectM source directory.") 
endif(LIBPROJECTM_FOUND) 
 
#if(LIBVISUAL_FOUND) 
#MESSAGE(STATUS "[projectM-libvisual] libvisual detected.") 
#else(LIBVISUAL_FOUND) 
#MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "libvisual 0.4 not found! Please visit  http://libvisual.sf.net and download the module.") 
#endif(LIBVISUAL_FOUND)

during make step still having problems finding libvisual/libvisual.h:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4/libvisual/ /usr/lib/libvisual

"error: X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h: No such file or directory":

sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev

errors compiling the libvisual-alsa stuff, first error was to do with undefined 'visual_init': just turn OFF inside ccmake INCLUDE_LIBVISUAL_ALSA

[nerdy_kid]

im on lucid with nvidia geforce 8600M and getting a seg fault (compiled fine though):

./projectM-test
dir:/usr/local/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 
Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800
[projectM] config file: /home/nerdy_kid/.projectM/config.inp
No Textures Loaded from /usr/local/share/projectM/textures
Segmentation fault

how would i get at least a backtrace?

[nerdy_kid]

im on lucid with nvidia geforce 8600M and getting a seg fault (compiled fine though):

./projectM-test
dir:/usr/local/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 
Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800
[projectM] config file: /home/nerdy_kid/.projectM/config.inp
No Textures Loaded from /usr/local/share/projectM/textures
Segmentation fault

how would i get at least a backtrace?

backtrace:

rogram received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00362f17 in FTSize::CharSize(FT_FaceRec_**, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/libftgl.so.2

disabled ftgl fonts and problem solved

[Afi]

With this error: No Textures Loaded from /usr/share/projectM/textures
i just corrected font paths in /home/user/.projectM/

Title Font = /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
Menu Font = /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMono.ttf

after that projectm-pulseaudio works in Meerkat. I don't know if it's the right way but it works for me.

[eddier]

Afi--your a

Correcting the fonts path has done the trick for me!

Using the 64-bit Deb with Maverick Meerkat.

I wonder if thats the problem with the install from Synaptic??


eddie

[zman0900]

during make step still having problems finding libvisual/libvisual.h:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4/libvisual/ /usr/lib/libvisual

Think you made a typo here. /usr/lib should be /usr/include. Otherwise, it worked for me. Thanks.

[earthmeLon]

The program 'ccmake' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install cmake-curses-gui

[DoctorBho]

Thank you for that, proteusmoteus! I just switched my 32 bit to lucid to 64 bit, and just about everything came back from the repos (Synaptic > File > Save markings, in case anyone is interested) but I had forgotten how much hassle it had been to compile projectm. Boy was I not looking forward to that!

But clicking on your deb, on the other hand, was sweet and effective!