SC3 Plugins in Linux

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I followed the usual instructions on the Installation page , I had no problem under Windows and it seems I only used them to access the ‘piano’ SynthDef, maybe I did something wrong now I’m on an Ubuntu PC I can’t get ‘piano’ to make any sound, whereas all the usual instruments seem to be working fine. I ticked ‘Language>Use SC3 Plugins’ and re-started FoxDot, to no avail…
Is it the case that I’m supposed to install from source - or is downloading the release and placing into the Extensions folder good enough? Thanks for any feedback.

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Judging from the most recent GitHub releases it looks like you will have to build from source on Linux. Hopefully it’s not too much of a pain. There is some detailed information in the README on how to do it.

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It’s OK I got it all up and running in Windows, thanks again!

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there’s a pretty good script from willbasky that install the last SC build with Sc3 on a debian-like.
I succeed on a Ubuntu Studio 19.10, you can try, it would be cool to stay on linux.

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worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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I installed supercollider and SC3 plugins using this method. The installation went smoothly except that I had to remove the -o option from pipefail in the script.
Then I launch FoxDot with the following commands:
in a terminal: sclang then FoxDot.start
in a second terminal: python -m FoxDot

So I don’t have access to SC3 plugins from FoxDot. Is there anything else to do?

Note that the original version of the method is more recent:

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I found the answer and I publish it, it can be used: slightly_smiling_face:

Edit the FoxDot configuration file and switch the line SC3 Plugins to “True”.

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You can also set it directly in the FoxDot UI by selecting ‘Language’ then ‘User SC3 Plugins’

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Ok, that’s probably better than telling FoxDot to use SC3 plugins all the time. I hadn’t seen it yet.