Build and run Sonic-Pi v4.50 on Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia) about sonic-pi HOT 5 OPEN

Hiya, this is really great stuff. Would you be at all interested in condensing and writing this up as both modifications to BUILD-LINUX.md where appropriate and an additional document - say doc/BUILD-LINUX-MINT.md which contains instructions specific to Mint.

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Hi Sam

Yes, no problem. I'll see if I can get something done over the weekend - although I do have a gig to play, using actual hardware synths with piano style keyboards...

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hiyah

I've tested a build on a brand new, clean install of Debian Bookworm, and the only missing package is curl - so the ./linux-prebuild.sh fails pretty much immediately

Bookworm has qmake6 if you do the big "apt install" in the BUILD-LINUX.md, and the OS installer account is in the audio group by default, and has qpwgraph and pipewire-jack as package names, and sound worked out of the box

The package that asks about enabling realtime priority for sound is jackd2. I think you should add that people should answer yes to that question.

I've then wiped that and installed Linux Mint, and my description is mostly valid

A clean Linux Mint install does not add the installer account to the audio group, you do need to faff around with qtchooser, install a later version of Elixir, install qpwgraph from flatpak

and then I still had to faff around with pulseaudio and pipewire to get sound.

I will do another clean install of Linux Mint to discover getting that working from scratch as that seems to be the only point of failure that is a bit obscure.

It all builds OK if you follow my post above, you just have to fiddle about a bit to get the sound output / pipewire working.

I just need to clarify that

(oh, and the stable version is now v4.51)

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I've now done a brand new install of Linux Mint 21.3 and written a BUILD-LINUX-MINT.md with the changes required for Linux Mint to build v4.5.1

Can I add the md file here so you can add it to the repository?

If so, well, let's try it...

BUILD-LINUX-MINT.md

The major change was to oust pulseaudio first, and then I didn't have issues with getting Sonic Pi to make sounds after I built it
(which to me was the hardest part of the whole process)

I realise this isn't the place to tell people how to get pipewire to work, but these instructions do work on a completely fresh install of Linux Mint 21.3 (XFCE version)

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PS As you can probably see, I used BUILD-LINUX.md as a template

And testing found that the only thing that needed adding to BUILD-LINUX.md (for Debian Bookworm) is to add curl to the list of packages pulled in by apt...

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