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Latest version is v0.5.4 (29-Apr-2000)

Software Requirements

• You must be running the Linux operating system. There is no Windows port of SoundTracker. As far as other Un*x-like operating systems are concerned, this is what my users told me:
  
  

  OS	Status	sent in by
  Linux 2.2.x, glibc2.1.x	This is the development configuration; works flawlessly.	Michael Krause
  SunOS 5.7	v0.3.8 compiles without problems; full functionality.	Fernando Mendez
  FreeBSD	Needs some patches; a port is available here.	Kristopher Zentner

  
  
• gtk+ 1.2.2 or later. If you use an earlier version, your menu bar might not be working! gtk+ is available from http://www.gtk.org/. If you don't have this version, try to get a pre-compiled package for your distribution first; if you can't, get the source code and compile it yourself. But be sure to remove any gtk-config and header files from a previous GTK+ installation from your system before (don't delete existing .so files). Don't install 1.3.x unless you know what you are doing.

Optional, but recommended

• audiofile library, version 0.1.5 or later. This is part of the GNOME project and can be found at http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/. Recent distributions carry this package by default, but it's also easy to compile yourself. You can only load and save samples if you have libaudiofile installed.
• GNOME, available from http://www.gnome.org/. Some features are only available in this version, such as the graphical instrument envelope editor. Besides, the program simply looks better with colorful icons in the menu bar :-)
• glibc 2.1 or later. When using glibc 2.0.x, the sound output gets non-continous sometimes, even when no other processes are running besides SoundTracker.

For libc5 users

You need thread-safe X libraries. On a glibc2 system (RedHat >= 5.0, SuSE >= 6.0), this is no issue. But if you have a libc5 system and you get strange X I/O errors when starting ST, you need to get a special version of your X libraries -- you can download them here (299K). Install instructions are in the archive.

Hardware Requirements

A lot of people keep asking me what the optimum hardware configuration for using SoundTracker is. I've developed and used it on an AMD K5 @100MHz with 64MB RAM for a long time, even though 32MB might be sufficient as well. Now I'm running it on an AMD K6-2 @400MHz, with 128MB and a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 128 PCI. The sound card is quite good, even though Linux's es1370 driver apparently has some problems in full-duplex mode.