How to Compile and Install Hydrogen Drum Machine on Ubuntu Linux

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Hydrogen is an open source drum sequencer for Linux. Here's how to compile it from source code and install the program on Ubuntu.

Instructions
Dependencies
sudo apt-get install libarchive-dev
sudo apt-get install liblrdf0-dev
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
sudo apt-get install libsndfile-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libtar-dev
sudo apt-get install liblo-dev
sudo apt-get install libpulse-dev
sudo apt-get install liblash-compat-dev
sudo apt-get install libraptor2-dev
sudo apt-get install libcppunit-dev
sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev
sudo apt-get install libportmidi-dev
sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install jackd
sudo apt-get install libjack-dev
sudo apt-get install qt4-default
sudo apt-get install git

Download Source Code
cd Downloads

Compile and Install
cd hydrogen
cmake .
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Launch Program
hydrogen

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[myam]

For those who are stuck on compiling cmake like me, make sure to install qttools5-dev via:


sudo apt install qttools5-dev

[justsayinit]

fantastic, ty for sharing in a concise way. just a tip for others who may hit a dependency error:

libjack-dev : Depends: libjack0 (= 1:0.125.0-3) but it is not going to be installed

which was resolved by installing: libjack0
sudo apt-get install libjack0

[rsinland]

I was missing (not in the list above) libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev, once that was installed via sudo apt-get install ibqt5xmlpatterns5-dev it worked.

[gabrielandresnapal]

Got stuck with this package which was missing :

Qt5LinguistTools.

I tried this :

sudo apt install qttools5-dev-tools qttools5-dev

It worked aroud the Qt5 package, but then jack was missing. Got tired so I tried :

sudo apt-get install hydrogen

And it worked on Ubuntu 16.04

[TANKE]

I installed successfully hydrogen, but now Guitarix wont work, worked perfectly before installing hydrogen... I know this is an old video, someone knows what the problem may be? thanks in advance!

[hugocardoso]

hello great video, i learned that a new rc version is out i already tested on windows and it's great, how to compile the app for use in Macos Mojave/Catalina? Thanks

[majorgnu]

Why invoke apt-get once for every single dependency when you can do it all in one go?

sudo apt-get install libarchive-dev liblrdf0-dev libasound2-dev libsndfile-dev zlib1g-dev libtar-dev liblo-dev libpulse-dev liblash-compat-dev libraptor2-dev libcppunit-dev portaudio19-dev libportmidi-dev cmake jackd libjack-dev qt4-default git

[janelson]

This didn't work for me at all...

[factor]

I have tried this several times and every time I get to cmake . I get this "-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:135 (FIND_PACKAGE):
By not providing "FindQt5Widgets.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"Qt5Widgets", but CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Widgets" with
any of the following names:

Qt5WidgetsConfig.cmake
qt5widgets-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "Qt5Widgets" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"Qt5Widgets_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"Qt5Widgets" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
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[texvonkwiatkowski]

You assume that the people listening to your program are all pc experts? And can you talk even more faster? Not happy with this recourse