Rosegarden
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2nd August, 2008
Release 1.7.1 of Rosegarden is now available
23rd March, 2007
Dave Phillips reviews Rosegarden for Linux Journal
15th March, 2007
The Rosegarden Handbook, the online help for Rosegarden, is now on the web as well as in Rosegarden!
1st July, 2005
The Rosegarden Companion by D. Michael McIntyre released in English.

How to get Rosegarden

The Rosegarden development team makes Rosegarden available in source code form, to be compiled after download.

Download the Rosegarden source distribution.

We don't make ready-to-run binaries; you should get those as packages tailored for a particular Linux distribution.

Rosegarden is a complex program that requires numerous libraries and services that vary from one Linux distribution to another. It is also advisable to run Rosegarden on a Linux system that is well tuned for interactive and audio applications. For these reasons, it is not practical at this time for the Rosegarden team to provide installable packages for the many Linux distributions available. Here's where you should look instead:

Distribution packages

Installable binary packages for many major Linux distributions are available via the distributions' standard package repositories. Please consult your distribution's documentation for more details on how to obtain and install packages from these repositories.

Note: Rosegarden benefits greatly from running on a system that is well tuned for audio and low-latency use. Many distributions have at least one specialised low-latency kernel package available via some sort of additional multimedia distribution or repository; consider using one of these. For example, Ubuntu -> Ubuntu Studio; Debian -> 64 Studio or Musix; Fedora -> PlanetCCRMA; OpenSUSE -> JAD. In most cases the choice of a multimedia distribution will make no difference to which version of Rosegarden you can use: it will affect the type of Linux kernel and other audio services available, and consequently how well Rosegarden will run.


    Distro release   Rosegarden version   Available via 
 
Ubuntu
 8.04.1 LTS (Hardy Heron)   Rosegarden v1.6.1   Community-supported Packages 
 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)   Rosegarden v1.5.1   Community-supported Packages 
 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)   Rosegarden v1.4.0   Community-supported Packages 
 
Debian
 Debian Unstable   Rosegarden v1.7.0 
 Debian Testing   Rosegarden v1.7.0 
 Debian Stable   Rosegarden v1.4.0 
 
OpenSUSE
 OpenSUSE   Rosegarden v1.6.1  Packman repository
 
Arch Linux
 
Gentoo
 Gentoo   Rosegarden v1.7.1  Portage