Comments on: Ubuntu Howto: Install projectM Audio Visualizer

By: alex

alex — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:23:01 +0000

this worked on natty only when the svn address was projectM-Trun (minus the k) otherwise reported an invalid certificate.

By: Al Pagan

Al Pagan — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:44:16 +0000

Just like to add that, following these instructions, I’ve successfully managed to build and compile projectm on Ubuntu Natty.

This was surprising, as it’s refused to compile successfully on the previous 2 versions of Ubuntu due to a pulseaudio problem. Looks like it’s been fixed for Natty! Hurrah!

By: Daryl Tucker

Daryl Tucker — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:23:07 +0000

sudo apt-get install cmake-curses-gui

ccmake is required by this tutorial, as well as cmake.

By: Elder Geek

Elder Geek — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:51:48 +0000

To see what has been installed you can open a terminal and run the following command:

cat /var/lib/dpk/info/projectM-pulseaudio to get a list of what is installed and where it went.

In my case I could only find a projectM-pulseaudio in Maverick. When I installed it in a VM it shows that the program is found at /usr/bin/projectM-pulseaudio

Whan a program does not run or run correctly, you should always run the program from a terminal to see what error messages may be generated.

By: Mr Amazing

Mr Amazing — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:07:21 +0000

I simply installed using sudo aptitude install libvisual-projectm

It seems to have installed just fine but how do I start the program? “projectM-pulseaudio” returns “command not found”

By: struktured

struktured — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:04:32 +0000

A connection refused error indicates you do not have pusleaudio setup correctly. Working on a better error handling strategy for that one.

I got projectm pulseaudiio working beautifully, but you have to install the pulse audio, glew, ftgl, and cg toolkit dev packages + god knows what else. Wish I wrote it all down. I think a package maintainer is working on such a list now fortunately. Remember to delete your CMakeCache.txt file before running cmake again and after installing new dev packages.

Also if you guys are willing to use the svn trunk branch I got projectM 2.0 with CG and thus pixel shading working. Aiming for a release soon after the license files are all annotated (a requirement by ubuntu package maintainers).

By: struktured

struktured — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:03:59 +0000

Connection refused error indicates you do not have pusleaudio setup correctly. Working on a better error handling strategy for that one.

By: Nescius

Nescius — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:19:52 +0000

its here -->http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2924292&group_id=104201&atid=637260
the problem is solvable just by commenting out the pulseaudio dependency in the makescript (which, it seems, doesn’t blend with the current version)
I am going to try it right now, wish me luck

By: Nescius

Nescius — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:52:51 +0000

CMake Error at projectM-pulseaudio/CMakeLists.txt:46 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: Pulse Audio is NOT found. Please install pulse audio 0.9.8 or
greater from http://www.pulseaudio.org.

is probably because 9.10 has pulseaudio 0.9.19 which could be slightly uncompatible with version cmake is looking for?
anyway, I failed on the same step

By: Mark Shasby

Mark Shasby — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:58:05 +0000

Thanks for this - it was very helpful

By: surement

surement — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:08:47 +0000

I am getting this error with ccmake .

CMake Error at projectM-pulseaudio/CMakeLists.txt:55 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: Pulse Audio is NOT found. Please install pulse audio 0.9.8 or
greater from http://www.pulseaudio.org.

I am on Ubuntu 9.10 and I followed all the steps (including sudo apt-get install libpulse-dev)

Can anyone help me with this? I’m quite new to linux.

By: dagodemon42

dagodemon42 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:12:23 +0000

The directions will work if the ccmake command is followed by -Wno-dev then the .(dot) this info came from ubuntuforums hope it helps!

By: Elder-Geek

Elder-Geek — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:27:42 +0000

@gman

When running ccmake . , USE_FTGL should be set to OFF.

By: gman

gman — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:09:34 +0000

@Elder Geek: I’m on 64bit Jaunty. I’m getting this error during make.

make
-- [projectM] FTGL font support was detected and enabled.
-- [projectM-qt] Qt4 detected.
-- [projectM-qt] projectM detected.
-- [projectM-pulseaudio] projectM detected.
-- [projectM-pulseaudio] projectM-qt detected.
-- [projectM-pulseaudio] pulse audio detected.
-- [projectM-libvisual] projectM detected.
-- [projectM-libvisual] libvisual detected.
-- [NativePresets] projectM detected.
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src
[ 1%] Building CXX object libprojectM/Renderer/CMakeFiles/Renderer.dir/Renderer.o
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:32,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/ft2build.h:56:38: error: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:33:10: error: #include expects “FILENAME” or
/usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:34:10: error: #include expects “FILENAME” or
/usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:35:10: error: #include expects “FILENAME” or
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:110,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPoint.h:75: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘…’ before ‘&’ token
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPoint.h: In constructor ‘FTPoint::FTPoint(int)’:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPoint.h:77: error: ‘ft_vector’ was not declared in this scope
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:111,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTBBox.h: At global scope:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTBBox.h:75: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:114,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGlyph.h:58: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGlyph.h:112: error: ‘FT_Error’ does not name a type
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGlyph.h:196: error: ‘FT_Error’ does not name a type
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:115,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTBitmapGlyph.h:50: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTBitmapGlyph.h:77: error: ‘FT_GlyphSlot’ was not declared in this scope
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:116,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTBufferGlyph.h:49: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:117,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTExtrdGlyph.h:59: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTExtrdGlyph.h:97: error: ‘FT_GlyphSlot’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/FTGL/FTExtrdGlyph.h:97: error: expected primary-expression before ‘float’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTExtrdGlyph.h:98: error: expected primary-expression before ‘float’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTExtrdGlyph.h:98: error: expected primary-expression before ‘float’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTExtrdGlyph.h:99: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTExtrdGlyph.h:99: error: initializer expression list treated as compound expression
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:118,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTOutlineGlyph.h:56: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTOutlineGlyph.h:88: error: ‘FT_GlyphSlot’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/FTGL/FTOutlineGlyph.h:88: error: expected primary-expression before ‘float’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTOutlineGlyph.h:89: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTOutlineGlyph.h:89: error: initializer expression list treated as compound expression
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:119,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPixmapGlyph.h:50: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPixmapGlyph.h:77: error: ‘FT_GlyphSlot’ was not declared in this scope
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:120,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPolyGlyph.h:57: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPolyGlyph.h:92: error: ‘FT_GlyphSlot’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPolyGlyph.h:92: error: expected primary-expression before ‘float’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPolyGlyph.h:93: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTPolyGlyph.h:93: error: initializer expression list treated as compound expression
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:121,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTTextureGlyph.h:59: error: expected `)’ before ‘glyph’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTTextureGlyph.h:92: error: ‘FT_GlyphSlot’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/FTGL/FTTextureGlyph.h:92: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTTextureGlyph.h:93: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTTextureGlyph.h:93: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTTextureGlyph.h:94: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTTextureGlyph.h:94: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
/usr/include/FTGL/FTTextureGlyph.h:94: error: initializer expression list treated as compound expression
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:123,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:128: error: ‘FT_Int’ has not been declared
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:137: error: ‘FT_Encoding’ has not been declared
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:151: error: ‘FT_Encoding’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:151: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:363: error: ‘FT_Error’ does not name a type
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:378: error: ‘MakeGlyph’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:378: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘(’ token
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:411: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘…’ before ‘(’ token
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:451: error: ‘FT_Encoding’ has not been declared
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:467: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ‘*’ token
/usr/include/FTGL/FTFont.h:579: error: ‘FT_Error’ does not name a type
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:124,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLBitmapFont.h:81: error: ‘MakeGlyph’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLBitmapFont.h:81: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘(’ token
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:125,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTBufferFont.h:79: error: ‘MakeGlyph’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTBufferFont.h:79: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘(’ token
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:126,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLExtrdFont.h:82: error: ‘MakeGlyph’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLExtrdFont.h:82: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘(’ token
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:127,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLOutlineFont.h:81: error: ‘MakeGlyph’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLOutlineFont.h:81: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘(’ token
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:128,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h:81: error: ‘MakeGlyph’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h:81: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘(’ token
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:129,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPolygonFont.h:81: error: ‘MakeGlyph’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPolygonFont.h:81: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘(’ token
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:130,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLTextureFont.h:81: error: ‘MakeGlyph’ declared as a ‘virtual’ field
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLTextureFont.h:81: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘(’ token
In file included from /usr/include/FTGL/ftgl.h:132,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.hpp:27,
from /home/gman/src/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/libprojectM/Renderer/Renderer.cpp:1:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTLayout.h:134: error: ‘FT_Error’ does not name a type
/usr/include/FTGL/FTLayout.h:187: error: ‘FT_Error’ does not name a type
make[2]: *** [libprojectM/Renderer/CMakeFiles/Renderer.dir/Renderer.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [libprojectM/Renderer/CMakeFiles/Renderer.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

By: Miles

Miles — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:03:52 +0000

Compiling is all fine and well but you know what the average Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu user really wants?

.deb files.

Toying with us, with something we can’t use or examine, until we’re frustrated will only drive folks away from the site. I hate to sound like an unappreciative ass (but that’s the risk of frustrating your readers), but if the article poster got it to compile--why wasn’t it made into a deb that ANYONE could install even if the svn available version cannot be compiled?

By: Elder Geek

Elder Geek — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:53:03 +0000

Re: Sergent

Sorry it did not live up to your expiations.
1. I was correcting the error in the directions above. The sequence is wrong and people will have a hard time changing into a directory they have not created yet.
2. I mentioned that the instructions above STILL work on both Intrepid and Jaunty in August 2009. ProjectM seems to have an on-again-off-again thing about compiling properly. It is nice when looking at a how-to that is over a year old to see that it is still working before embarking on it.
3. The how to for Hardy is nice, but I built projectM in late July and those instructions there did not get it done. Unless you know something I do not. You CAN NOT build projectM from svn with an old version of ccmake. I was trying to give tips not found elsewhere on building cmake so you CAN build projectM on Hardy.

I wish I could format any of the above, but I can’t seem to do that here. Most of my comments are “bread crumbs”. If you are fairly competent it would be nice to know you must upgrade cmake to build proejctM on Hardy. I could do a complete walk through, I could document it well. I could even do a screencast. In this case I was just trying to be helpful.

By: Brandon M. Sergent

Brandon M. Sergent — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:52:44 +0000

These instructions are garbage, no offense.

For a working understandable user friendly guidethat has screen shots goto the following.

Confirmed working for jaunty. Includes project m 2.0 shader instruction. Step by steps copy paste to terminal with explanations of what each command means.

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

Unsubscribing from this thread.

By: Elder Geek

Elder Geek — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:13:44 +0000

As of August 11, 2009 the above instructions work great for Intrepid and Jaunty (Hardy instructions below). Once you reorder these steps as follows:

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

If you are not running Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, OpenGEB, etc) then you will need to install pulse audio to get this working. You can find the instructions here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio

If you want to do this for Hardy you will need a more recent copy of ccmake. I went to here http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/devel/cmake and did the following.

sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts fakeroot
sudo apt-get build-dep cmake
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cmake/cmake_2.6.2-1ubuntu1.dsc
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cmake/cmake_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cmake/cmake_2.6.2-1ubuntu1.diff.gz
gunzip cmake_2.6.2-1ubuntu1.diff.gz
tar xzvf cmake_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz
cd to the cmake directory
patch -p0 < ../cmake_2.6.2-1ubuntu1.diff

now with it patched.

debchange --nmu
fakeroot debuild -uc -us

then

cd ..
and dpkg -i cmake-2.6.2-1ubuntu1.deb

After that you should be able to follow the instructions above.

I also had the problem that I broke something after it was installed. I.E. the program would run fine, then after a change it crashed. This fixed it

rm ~/.projectM
rm ~/.config/projectM

By: Brandon M. Sergent

Brandon M. Sergent — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:15:49 +0000

Just out of curiosity why is there no deb of this? What is preventing it? Is there anything anyone can do to help? If so what would that be?

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:47:20 +0000

Yeah, kind of a long shot, but I was thinking that your video card did not support open gl.