aRts-1.1.4

Introduction to aRts

The Analog Real-time Synthesizer (aRts) provides sound support for KDE. It provides necessary libraries for kdelibs.

Package information

aRts dependencies

Required

Qt-3.2.1

Installation of aRts

Before starting the build, ensure you have the QTDIR environment variable set:

export QTDIR=/opt/qt

Install aRts by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/opt/kde-3.1.4 --disable-debug \
     --disable-dependency-tracking &&
make &&
make install &&
ln -sfn /opt/kde-3.1.4 /opt/kde

Note: Another configure option is --enable-final. This option can speed up the build process, but requires a lot of memory. If you have less than 256MB of RAM, this option may cause swapping and significantly slow compilation.

Command explanations

--prefix=/opt/kde-3.1.4 : This option tells the process to install the package in /opt/kde-3.1.4. We put aRts here because this package is required before installing KDE.

--disable-debug : This option causes the system to be compiled without debugging code.

--disable-dependency-tracking : This option speeds up one time builds.

ln -sfn /opt/kde-3.1.4 /opt/kde : This command creates a link for access to KDE. If a newer version of KDE is released, the new system can be built by changing the --prefix location and then set up by changing the link as this command does.

Configuring aRts

Configuration Information

The library directory /opt/kde/lib should appear in /etc/ld.so.conf so that ldd can find the shared libraries. The following command will add it if it is missing:

cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF"
# Begin kde addition to /etc/ld.so.conf

/opt/kde/lib

# End kde addition
EOF
ldconfig