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

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