Brahms for Debian?
I first found Brahms on the old tdyc site, but then found out it was only
available as an .rpm and not in .deb format. I went to the Brahms site, and it
recommended arts, which in turn recommended mico. I got the mico sources and
compiled it with the disable-stl as recommended by the arts site. Then I tried
several times to compile arts, but it didn't recognise the mico libs. I
eventually got ldconfig to set-up the mico libs properly and got arts to
compile, but nothing I do will compile Brahms. Now that arts is available with
KDE2 in .deb format, I was wondering if someone was working on Brahms? I very
rarely use the NT partition any more, but still use it for NoteWorthy Composer.
I find this to be quite a capable music tool that uses musical staves to enter
the music rather than the other techniques used by other midi software. I have
tried RoseGarden, but found that it crashed frequently, you can't set left/right
levels for the staves and the instruments are listed as numbers and not
instruments. Brahms seems to fill all my requirements for music, I just wish I
could get it to work on my system. With this, I can finally wipe the NT
partition from my system and have a M$-free PC!
So, if someone is working on a Brahms .deb package, what is the progress? If
not, could I interest someone in getting started? I'd love to try it myself, but
I'm still new to Linux and Debian and have just started a programming course, so
it's beyond my abilities. After all, if I can't get the sources to compile on my
system, what hope have I got of making a .deb of it?
I've thought of changing to an rpm-based system, but my daughters PC is
Mandrake, and I can't get the brahms .rpm's to install on it either.
I'm sure there are lots of people working on lots of KDE projects and I greatly
appreciate their time and effort. This is just my small request for a package.
Thank you all for your work.
Cheers,
John Gay
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