Dependencies

Here you will find a list of some of the dependencies for Sonic Pi. This list may be slightly incorrect or incomplete, so please add to/change this if needed.

Sonic Pi v3.1.0

Sonic Pi Server dependencies

• ruby - To run the Sonic Pi server code
• ruby-dev - Header files for compiling extension modules for Ruby
• python
• erlang-base - to run the Erlang parts

Supercollider build dependencies (v3.9.1)

• gcc >= 4.8 - GNU C compiler
• cmake >= 2.8.11 (on some platforms, cmake >= 2.9 may require manual build)
• libjack-dev or libjack-jackd2-dev
• libsndfile1-dev >= 1.0
• libasound2-dev
• libavahi-client-dev
• libicu-dev
• libreadline6-dev
• fttw >= 3.0 (libfftw3-dev)
• libxt-dev
• libudev-dev
• pkg-config
• git (used by the Quarks package management system)
• qt5-default qt5-qmake qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools qtdeclarative5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev

Sonic Pi GUI dependencies

• g++ - GNU C++ compiler
• git
• make
• cmake
• libqwt-qt5-dev libqt5scintilla2-dev libqt5svg5-dev qt5-qmake qt5-default qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools qtdeclarative5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev qtpositioning5-dev libqt5sensors5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev
• libffi-dev