NOTE: Due to demands of other projects, Mediascape has temporarily suspended development of Artstream-Linux. Consequently, these distributions may no longer be compatible with later Linux kernels. Please feel free to register, and we will send email notification when an update is available. In the meantime you may find Sketch a useful alternative for illustration on Linux.

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Installation Prerequisites:

OpenGL driver:

Identify existing OpenGL driver
The Artstream rpm provided here requires OpenGL library drivers to be resident on the users system. To determine if an OpenGL driver already exists on your system, use the following commands locate libGL.so.1 and locate libGLU.so.1. If no paths are returned, then an OpenGL driver needs to be installed. This driver can be obtained from several sources, including the free Mesa distribution described below, and other commercial sources.

Using the free Mesa drivers
Any graphics card is supported without acceleration using the Mesa 3D Graphics Library, a free OpenGL compatible library. The Mesa library is comprised of two components, the libGL and libGLU. Currently, due to problems in the Mesa libGLU, Artstream includes and uses a separate SGI distribution of libGLU which overrides, (but does not overwrite), the Mesa version. Therefore it is now only necessary to obtain the latest version of libGL from Mesa, for which versions 3.1 or later seem to be stable. The latest Mesa libGL distribution, (3.2 at this writing), can be obtained from the Mesa download site.

Other OpenGL drivers
Hardware acceleration for the Mesa driver is currently provided by Nvidia, and support is in progress for cards by other vendors. Licensed, SGI compliant drivers are also available without and with hardware acceleration. Accelerated OpenGL drivers are now shipping from XiGraphics, with a broad selection of supported graphics cards. Additionally, Metro Link currently provides a SGI compliant OpenGL driver without acceleration for a broad range of supported graphics cards, and has announced plans for accelerated support of some graphics cards. Also, SGI, in conjunction with VA Linux and Nvidia plan to release accelerated OpenGL in the near future. A survey of current and planned accelerated OpenGL implementations for Linux can be found at www.linux3d.org.

X Server:

As of version 2.1a1-7 and later, Artstream now supports version 4.0.2 of the XFree86 XWindows system. This version of XFree86 is recommended, or a commercial X server from XiGraphics or MetroLink.

Enabling backing store
Artstream requires backing store to be enabled on the X server. Instructions on how to enable this feature for various server environments is summarized in our enabling backing store page.

Artstream download and installation:

This distribution runs without a license in demo mode, allowing all features except save, export and print. A free 30 day license is available by registering at http://www.mediascape.com/linuxreg.html. On line documentation, (still in progress), can be viewed by registered users at http://www.mediascape.com/mediaEscape/guide.html. A full license purchase will soon be available at http://www.mediascape.com/orderform.html.

Compatibility note: Due to slightly different rates of change in the various major Linux distributions, we now provide a different release for each of the major distributions. Currently RedHat 6.2 and Mandrake 7.2 are verified. Due to some problems with an XFree86 4.0.2 library component, these versions are both only fully functional with commercial OpenGL drivers such as that from nVidia or other licensed hardware vendors.

Artstream-Linux rpm.

The latest alpha release is:
Artstream-2.1a2-2mdk7 rpm for Mandrake

 Supported releases:
Mandrake
7.0 - 7.2


Artstream-2.1a2-2mdk7.i686.rpm

Mar 23, 2001

6985486 Bytes

The latest alpha release is:
Artstream-2.1a2-2rh6 rpm for RedHat

 Supported releases:

RedHat
6.0 - 6.2


Artstream-2.1a2-2rh6.i386.rpm

Mar 23, 2001

6819957 Bytes

The current release is:
Artstream 2.0b13-1 rpm for Linux.
Artstream-2.0b13-1.i386.rpm
Nov 2, 2000
4715682 Bytes

Right click on the above Artstream icon or rpm filename, then release on "Save Link(/Target) As...". Download the rpm to a scratch directory on your target system then, from that directory, enter the following command:

Using the default path (/usr):

rpm -ivh Artstream-2.0b13-1.i386.rpm

Using a user Defined Path:

An alternative to the default installation path for Artstream is available with the following command:

rpm -ivh --prefix <user defined path> Artstream-2.0b13-1.i386.rpm

Note: Those who obtain the Mesa release in a source, as opposed to an rpm distribution will see the error:

error: failed dependencies: libGL.so.1 is needed 
by Artstream-2.0b13-1 libGLU.so.1 is needed by Artstream-2.0b13-1


To override this, use the following alternate install command

rpm -ivh --nodeps Artstream-2.0b13-1.i386.rpm

Note: To update an existing installation, rather than using rpm -U, it is important to use:

  1. rpm -e
  2. then rpm -i

instead, to avoid conflicts with the startup script, font data base and other support files.
Artstream-Linux archive.

The latest alpha release is:
Artstream 2.1a2-2rh6 archive for RedHat

 Supported releases:
RedHat
6.0 - 6.2


Artstream-2.1a2-2rh6.tar.gz

Mar 23, 2001

6810721 Bytes

The current release is:
Artstream 2.0b13-1 archive for Linux.

Artstream-2.0b13-1.tar.gz
 Nov 2, 2000 4707292 Bytes

Right click on the above Artstream icon or archive filename, then release on "Save Link(/Target) As...". Download the archive to a scratch directory, (<scratch directory path>), on your target system then enter the following command:

  1. cd /
  2. tar zxvf <scratch directory path>/Artstream-2.0b13-1.i386.tar.gz

Mesa Distribution

For convenience, the following is a rpm of the last version of Mesa that we have tested with. This was compiled on Red Hat 6.2. For source code and other Mesa 3D related information see the Mesa 3D site.

MesaCVS-3.2.2000.03.03-1.i386.rpm

OpenInventor Distribution

As of the 2.1a1-7 distibution of Artstream, OpenInventor is now bundled. Our version of OpenInventor is installed in a local directory, only recognized by Artstream. Only the components needed for Artstream are included. For a full, and system wide version of OpenInventor, see ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/download.

More details on this package an be found at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/.

Free trial license:

License Instructions

A network interface card is required on your system to obtain an Artstream license. The host ID from this card is needed for license generation. After installation, to obtain the Artstream-Linux license, perform the following:

  1. /usr/flexlm/Mediascape/lmhostid
  2. Fill out the registration form, including the returned lmhostid, at http://www.mediascape.com/linuxreg.html.
  3. Save the license section of the reply e-mail in /usr/flexlm/licenses/artstream.lic

Try out the sample docs in /usr/share/Artstream/docs for starters.

Note: As of version 2.0b11-4 the installation directory has moved from /usr/local to /usr. If a prior version artstream was installed, but not run in the old location, the old license will need to be moved from /usr/local/flexlm to /usr/flexlm.

Please provide feedback:

Please read the Web based RELNOTES or those included in the package before running the application. Also please review these notes carefully before sending feedback to ensure your comment is not already listed. Send comments, questions or problems to feedback@mediascape.com, or use the feedback form at http://www.mediascape.com/feedback.html.

Note: The RELNOTES in the rpm package are often superseded by the on-line version at http://www.mediascape.com/linrelnotes.html.

See CHANGELOG for differences from the last release.

 

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