Bitwig

Renich · Post by **Renich** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:30 am

As promised somewhere on this forum, I have created an RPM for Fedora installations.

It works fine for me but, honestly, I haven't tested it yet in any other computers.

Since the Bandwidth required for your downloads would be fairly high, I am sorry to say I am not providing the actual RPMs.

I will provide the SPEC file anyway and here is how to "roll your own" RPM if you feel like it.

Now, do not do this as root. It is important you're a normal user.

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# Install the Fedora packaging group
su -c 'yum install @fedora-packager'

# Make yourself a member of the mock group and join it
su -c 'usermod -aG mock renich'
newgrp mock

# Go home and setup a development tree
cd
rpmdev-setuptree

# Get in there and put the spec file in SPEC (one line)
curl -k http://downloads.woralelandia.com/fedora/20/bitwig-studio/bitwig-studio.spec > ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/bitwig-studio.spec

# Go to the SOURCES dir and get the sources
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
spectool -g ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/bitwig-studio.spec

# Ready your SRPM
cd ~/rpmbuild
rpmbuild -bs SPECS/bitwig-studio.spec

# Start building (one line)
mock --resultdir results/ --rebuild SRPMS/bitwig-studio-*.src.rpm

# Install your RPM
yum install ~/rpmbuild/results/bitwig-studio-*.x86_64.rpm

The mock building process took like 8 minutes in my PC. Be patient.

This works perfectly for me. Let me know if you find any bugs.

@Bitwig: Feel free to include the process in your regular build procedure. A mention on the changelog/news would be nice but not required

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Renich · Post by **Renich** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:18 am

Ok, I figured uploading the RPM to Mega is not such a bad idea.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!MFgj3RyS!CWuoHWtsKFdMkdkL9cC7qg/

Uploading right about now. It will take like an hour or so.

Renich · Post by **Renich** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:09 am

Ok, updated the spec file to 1.0.5; which meant updating the version field on the spec... fairly easy.

Rebuilding right now.

Beerhunter · Post by **Beerhunter** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 3:28 pm

Hi,

i tried version 1.0.4 you did pack, it does work pretty well.
A little bug if it´s really one, you can´t change the audio service while Bitwig is running (when the Audio Engine is powered off ). I need to start i.e. Jack before starting Bitwig.

Anything else does work out fine so far.

Great Job

i did sent an e-mail to the developers, to check out the script you wrote down here.

greetings

Beerhunter

Beerhunter · Post by **Beerhunter** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 4:52 pm

Hi,

version 1.05 is available on

http://www.mydrive.ch

login: guest@beerhunter
PW:123456

I Try to provide daily packages.

greetings

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 2:07 am

Beerhunter wrote:Hi,

version 1.05 is available on

http://www.mydrive.ch

login: guest@beerhunter
PW:123456

I Try to provide daily packages.

greetings

Thanks for helping out! You might consider posting at
the linux audio users mail-list, which has been discussing
bitwig at some length.

Link to join the mail-list is here:

http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/

to read the list:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-audio-users/

Cheers

Renich · Post by **Renich** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:05 am

Hey, glad to see people are helping out! Thanks a lot!

Beerhunter · Post by **Beerhunter** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:58 pm

Hi Renich,

would be nice if you tell me how to update the SPEC file, haven´t figured it out yet.

oh, before i forget, just send away an e-mail to the guys from linux-audio.org.
as proposed.

greetings

edit: 10.04.14 Srry i did overread the line, where you describe what to do, srry man.

greetings B.

Beerhunter · Post by **Beerhunter** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:59 pm

Hi,

Version 1.0.6-1 is officially released, and i did pack an RPM package, as usual.

It does work out well on both of my maschines, and they updated the Logo, while Bitwig is starting, but only on Linux, as far as i can say. (They now changed the old one, so the startup of Bitwig now looks equal, or nearly equal, compared to the Windows and OSX ones).

I know, the last aspect is just eyecandy, but i like it.

enjoy...

Renich · Post by **Renich** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:05 pm

Hey Beerhunter;

Sorry, for some reason, I am not subscribed to be notified when this post is commented. Anyway, good that you figured it out!

Just as a reminder, you just have to update the version in the spec and update the script accordingly. This means, change all the instances of 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 in the SPEC and script.

You could try:

sed -ri 's@1\.0\.5@1\.0\.6@g' path/to/bitwig-studio.spec path/to/build/script

Thanks for doing hte RPM work. I have uploaded my version to: https://mega.co.nz/#F!MFgj3RyS!CWuoHWtsKFdMkdkL9cC7qg

Beerhunter · Post by **Beerhunter** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 7:55 pm

Hi Renich,

i´ll try next time

But thanks anyway.
I am a Fedora User, so if i have to pack the stuff for myself, then there are only a few clicks left, to push it into public.

That´s no hard work, not at all.

oh, before i forget, how much free web space do you have, using mega ?

I´m askin cause, mydrive offers me only 2GB, and if the Bitwig Developers continue fixing Bugs etc. that fast, it´ll be used up pretty soon.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:16 am

It would be great if Fernando from CCRMA had space/interest to host
your builds, I got a Fedora 20 dvd today, But I'll wait til
1.0.7 or 8 to download.
Cheers

lem8r · Post by **lem8r** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 7:59 am

rpm can be generated with alien tool:

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$sudo alien -r bitwig-studio-1.0.6.deb

Beerhunter · Post by **Beerhunter** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:07 pm

@ lem8r

that was the first thought i had, but it does not work out for me. If it does for you great.

@ glokraw

you can download whenever you want

just go and check out my webspace.

Renich · Post by **Renich** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:25 am

glokraw wrote:It would be great if Fernando from CCRMA had space/interest to host
your builds, I got a Fedora 20 dvd today, But I'll wait til
1.0.7 or 8 to download.
Cheers

Yeah, it would. The thing is BitWig is not Free Software. It is not packaged according to Fedora's guidelines either.

I can't host it, AFAIK, in any of Fedora's servers (copr, Fedora People or Official Repos).

I know that Fernando Lazcano is collaborating with the Music SIG in Fedora. That said, I do not know on what terms and/or if he enforces those.

I could setup a repo easily if somebody provided a server with ssh/rsync access. It would be easy.

If anybody is interesting in donating such server, let me know. Just keep in mind that every build uses up ~150 MB; which is kind of a lot. If you get lots of downloads, your server my suffer.

Getting a cheat server at CloudSigma would do as well.

Anyway, I just wanna let everybody know I am up to it.

Bitwig

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