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Supercollider: backport necessary?

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#1

Ignorant newbie posting here...

I am getting to grips with Supercollider, an audio language/server engine that uses Emacs as its code development environment. I successfully managed to download it using Synaptic, and it seems to mostly work well. Better still would be using the latest build.

Having spoken to a few experienced users on the supercollider forums, I am told that the ideal way to get the latest version is to download and build it from the CVS tree, which gives me a headache and doesn't work.

So do I have a case here for requesting the latest Supercollider CVS build be available for apt-get installation? I don't know how [often] it gets picked up from CVS and put into any Ubuntu repositories. I just need the latest build without the hassle of, er, building it myself. (Is that too lame?)

Many thanks for your attention.

Regards Matt

CVS etc.: http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider Home: www.audiosynth.com

#2

I second that request!

actually i haven't even been able to successfully install the package. get an error message (subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 --configure). i'm pretty new to gnu but i fell in love with sc3 when i was using os x. an easily installed working version of supercollider is really all i miss about os x.