No GUI/Headless install for Linux about sonic-pi

[tloureiro]

Some preliminary steps on how to do it - I'm using Xubuntu 24.04

• Clone this repo, checkout whatever branch you want, preferably a stable version one
• Run sudo apt install supercollider pipewire-jack ruby3.2 ruby3.2-dev build-essential cmake ninja-build pkg-config libssl-dev erlang-dev erlang-xmerl elixir
• Comment out these 2 lines from sonic-pi/app/linux-build-all.sh

# "${SCRIPT_DIR}"/linux-config.sh "$@"
# "${SCRIPT_DIR}"/linux-build-gui.sh "$@"

• Run ./linux-build-all.sh --system-libs

You should be able to start the server now ruby ./sonic-pi/app/server/ruby/bin/daemon.rb - some numbers will be printed out; these are port numbers. If no OSC command is sent, the server shuts itself down after some time

Testing it:
I'm using a hacky/modified version of @rbnpi's gem.
It's a simple gem, you can download it, modify the sonic_pi4.rb file, remove/comment out the 2 break instructions in this file, and this should do the trick. Also, on sonic_pi4.rb, make sure you change the require 'sonic_piRBN.rb' to require './sonic_piRBN.rb'

Now you can run ruby sonic_pi4.rb play 72 and hear the note playing.

[vomitHatSteve]

So you do have an sonicpi server running and playing audio with this technique?

If no OSC command is sent, the server shuts itself down after some time

The timeout is, what? 3 seconds? How do you keep that from happening?

I've been fighting with with a headless mode since upgrading to version 4.x for a month or two. I'll try your techniques and see if I can get it working.

[vomitHatSteve]

Also, what Linux distro are you on? I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

[tloureiro]

@vomitHatSteve

The timeout is of 90 seconds, I believe, and it's because of the Zombie Kil Switch - the GUI keeps it alive by constantly hitting a daemon OSC endpoint /daemon/keep-alive.

Right now I'm working on a VScode extension that will try to manage the OSC messaging and will also do some code syntax colouring and basic code completion

Also, what Linux distro are you on? I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Xubuntu 24.04 - pipewire installed by default

Please let me know if you get stuck anywhere 👍

[tloureiro]

I'm still working on the vscode plugin, very early phases. Right now, you can start, stop, and play a test note using the vscode prompt. This is my developing branch https://github.com/tloureiro/sonic-pi-studio/tree/version-1

I'll work on sending the contents of the current file to the server next.

[samaaron]

Hiya,

I've just created a very simple barebones REPL to help people work on alternative front-ends:

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[samaaron]

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