Building Mup on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

I really like the Mup music typesetting program. It had been a while since I had needed to do some music, and I had never installed it on Linux before, so I thought I would give it a go.

It was harder than I thought, but I got it to work. Here is what it took:

• download and extract the source tarball
• install the following packages: gv, playmidi, libx11-dev, libfltk1.1-dev, libxpm-dev, libxext-dev
• change the makefile to link in some different libs, here is what I got to work:
  

# You can use fltk_jpeg or jpeg library, whichever you have
JPEGLIB = fltk_images

# You can use fltk_png or png library, whichever you have
PNGLIB = fltk_images

# You can use fltk_z or z library, whichever you have
ZLIB = z

• sudo make install

Now mup works, and the new mupmate and mupdisp, too.

The license code goes in a single-line text file: ~/.mup -- similar to the DOS mup.ok contents.