projectM install from source

I tried installing projectM from the repo but it is only integrated in Amarok. I want to install the pulseaudio version of projectM 1.2.0, so that any audio that is playing through my computer, I can display projectM. The main reason for me doing this is because it would be awesome if I could have projectM as my visualizer when using Songbird 1.0.

Link to package http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104201&package_id=269729

Link to a howto http://linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/Install_ProjectM

I installed the dependencies listed. When I extract the package and try to ./configure, I get "No such file or directory." I tried looking for the config script but I couldn't find it.

Can someone check out the package and see if they can make it? If you can, can you help me make this?

Thanks, Hans

hansoffate said: I tried installing projectM from the repo but it is only integrated in Amarok. I want to install the pulseaudio version of projectM 1.2.0, so that any audio that is playing through my computer, I can display projectM. The main reason for me doing this is because it would be awesome if I could have projectM as my visualizer when using Songbird 1.0.

Link to package http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104201&package_id=269729

Link to a howto http://linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/Install_ProjectM

I installed the dependencies listed. When I extract the package and try to ./configure, I get "No such file or directory." I tried looking for the config script but I couldn't find it.

Can someone check out the package and see if they can make it? If you can, can you help me make this?

Thanks, Hans Try to follow this how-to here. It may work better for you.

kostkon said: Try to follow this how-to here. It may work better for you.

Thanks for the link. I just got it installed again after not using it for awhile. They fixed the disappearing mouse bug too! Now to enjoy some visualizations from Songbird via projectm-pulseaudio.

If anyone wants to get the current SVN 1199 with Interpid Ibex working, the steps are listed on page 19 of the thread.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749793&page=19

Zularan said: Just confirming this works fine for Intrepid.

Steps I used were:

sudo aptitude install libglew1.5 libglew1.5-dev ftgl-dev libpulse-dev subversion cmake libvisual-0.4-dev libsdl-dev libqt4-dev build-essential

cd ~
mkdir projectm
cd projectm
svn co https://projectm.svn.sf.net/svnroot/projectm/trunk projectM-Trunk

cd projectM-Trunk/src

ccmake .

Now cmake will load. Press "c" to configure projectM. Highlight the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE field, press enter and type "Release" there. Press enter again. Then highlight the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX field and change /usr/local to /usr/. Then press "c" again to configure it with those parameters.

Had some warnings that looked like

I went on anyway.

First make failed but lamelos' fix worked fine.

lamelos said: I had the same problem, but seem to have 'fixed' it now.

The problem seems to be that FTGL.h is in lowercase (on my pc it was anyway - Intrepid 8.10) and thus it can't be found by the 'make'-command.

This is how i fixed it:

Before you do 'make'

cd libprojectM
gedit Renderer.hpp

then edit lines 28-30 from this:

#include <FTGL/FTGL.h>
#include <FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h>
#include <FTGL/FTGLExtrdFont.h>

to this:

#include <FTGL/ftgl.h>
/**#include <FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h> */
/**#include <FTGL/FTGLExtrdFont.h> */

after this, exit gedit and

cd ..
make

now the make succeeds, and you can proceed with

sudo make install

Hope it works for you as well.

projectM-pulseaudio should be in Menu -> Sound and Video or cli ``` projectM-pulseaudio