Running eDRUMin on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

[Sharkuel]

Greetings!

Hope you all are doing well and happy 2025!

Following my venture where I managed to have the eDRUMin app running on Arch Linux (you may find the tutorial here viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2323&p=15795#p15795), I have decided to have a go and make the app run under OpenSUSE Tumbleweed as well.

A bit of context before we proceed: there is a solid comunity of musicians, producers and sound engineers that use OpenSUSE, both Tumbleweed and Leap. Such comunity went to great lenghts to create a one-click install solution named GeekOS DAW, where it basically sets up any machin running OpenSUSE to be audio production ready.

Since I have installed OpenSUSE on my laptop, I decided to give it a go, and search for the necessary packages to make the eDRUMin app run without the need to create an Ubuntu container and use apt there.

So, the sequence of commands under the terminal are as follows:

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sudo zypper install libxcb-devel

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sudo zypper install libusb-1_0-devel

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sudo zypper install libusb-0_1-4

These three packages contains all the necessary components that makes the eDRUMin app to run. My suggestion is to change the installer.sh script and update the packages needed there. You can open it with either Kate, Nano, Vim, or whatever is your prefered text editor, as displayed on the example bellow:

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[pdf=factory"


echo "Installation complete."
]#!/bin/bash

# GET SUDO privilege (Change sudo to gksu or gksudo if you prefer a graphical prompt)
echo "***********************************************"
echo "*           eDRUMin Control Setup             *"
echo "***********************************************"
echo
echo "This installer requires root privileges..."
[ "$UID" -eq 0 ] || exec sudo bash "$0" "$@"

#install dependencies
sudo zypper install libxcb-devel libusb-1_0-devel libusb-0_1-4

APP_NAME="eDRUMin"
VST3_NAME="edrumin.vst3"
SHORTCUT_NAME="${APP_NAME}.desktop"
BINARY_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

APP_INSTALL_FOLDER="/opt/${APP_NAME}"
USER_HOME=$(getent passwd $SUDO_USER | cut -d: -f6)
SHORTCUT_PATH="/usr/share/applications/${SHORTCUT_NAME}"
RULES_PATH="/etc/udev/rules.d/${APP_NAME}.rules"
PDF="${APP_NAME}.pdf"
ICON_NAME="icon.png"

AF_SETTINGS_PATH="${USER_HOME}/.AudioFront"

ICON_PATH="${AF_SETTINGS_PATH}/${APP_NAME}/${ICON_NAME}"
SETTINGS_PATH="${AF_SETTINGS_PATH}/${APP_NAME}"


#REMOVE OLD STUFF
if [ -d "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}" ]; then 
    echo "Uninstalling previous version..."
    rm -r "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}"
fi

#create application folder
mkdir -p "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}"

echo "Creating folder structure..."
#make firmware folder
mkdir "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}/firmware"
mkdir "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}/vst3"

#copy the binary
echo "Copying application binaries..."
cp "./bin/${BINARY_NAME}"  "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}"
cp -r "./bin/${VST3_NAME}" "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}/vst3/"

#copy the firmware
echo "Copying firmware..."
cp -r "./firmware" "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}/"


echo "Creating Desktop shortcut..."
echo "[Desktop Entry]" > "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"
echo "Type=Application" >> "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"
echo "Terminal=false" >> "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"
echo "Name=eDRUMin" >> "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"
echo "Icon=${ICON_PATH}" >> "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"
echo "Exec=${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}/${BINARY_NAME}" >> "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"
echo "StartupNotify=true" >> "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"
echo "StartupWMClass=eDRUMin" >> "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"

chmod 755 "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"
chmod +x "${SHORTCUT_PATH}"


chmod -R 777 "${APP_INSTALL_FOLDER}/firmware"


echo "Adding udev rules..."

if test -f "$RULES_PATH"; then
    rm "${RULES_PATH}"
fi

touch ${RULES_PATH}

echo "# eDRUMin rules to allow access to rawhid devices"  >> "${RULES_PATH}"
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"16c0\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0460\", MODE:=\"0666\"" >> "${RULES_PATH}"
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"16c0\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0461\", MODE:=\"0666\"" >> "${RULES_PATH}"
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"16c0\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0462\", MODE:=\"0666\"" >> "${RULES_PATH}"
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"16c0\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0463\", MODE:=\"0666\"" >> "${RULES_PATH}"
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"16c0\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0464\", MODE:=\"0666\"" >> "${RULES_PATH}"
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"16c0\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0465\", MODE:=\"0666\"" >> "${RULES_PATH}"
echo "SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"16c0\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0478\", MODE:=\"0666\"" >> "${RULES_PATH}"

udevadm control --reload

#MAKE AUDIOFRONT FOLDER IF IT DOESN'T ALREADY EXIST
if [ -d "${AF_SETTINGS_PATH}" ]; then 
    echo "AudioFront Folder found..."
else
    echo "Creating AudioFront folder..."
    mkdir "${AF_SETTINGS_PATH}"
    chmod 777 "${AF_SETTINGS_PATH}"
fi

#MAKE THE APPLICATION SETTINGS PATH
if [ -d "${SETTINGS_PATH}" ]; then 
    echo "Application settings folder found..."
else
    echo "Creating application settings folder..."
    mkdir "${SETTINGS_PATH}"
    chmod 777 "${SETTINGS_PATH}"
fi


if test -f "${USER_HOME}/.AudioFront/${PDF}"; then
    echo "Removing previous user manual..."
    rm "${USER_HOME}/.AudioFront/${PDF}"
fi

echo "Copying user manual..."
cp "./${PDF}" "${USER_HOME}/.AudioFront/"
chmod 777 "${USER_HOME}/.AudioFront/${PDF}"

echo "Copying application icon..."
cp "./${ICON_NAME}" "${SETTINGS_PATH}"
chown $SUDO_USER "${ICON_PATH}"
chmod 777 "${ICON_PATH}"

echo "Copying factory presets..."
cp -rf "./presets/factory" "${SETTINGS_PATH}"
chown -R $SUDO_USER "${SETTINGS_PATH}/factory"
chmod -R 777 "${SETTINGS_PATH}/factory"


echo "Installation complete."
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Alternativelly, you can simply delete the apt line and run the installer and later you may install the packages referenced above, either way it will work. But if you don't change the apt line to zypper, or simply delete the line, the install script will not work.

Once that is done, you will be able to launch the app with ease:



Hope I was of help. In the meantime, if I use another distro that isn't covered, and I manage to run eDRUMin on it, I will let you guys know.

Happy drummin, and I wish you all a good year!

[Rob]

You are dedicated. Thanks for the information.

[Sharkuel]

Well Rob, all I want is to give options to our Linux users.

So at this moment, Arch-based, Debian-based and half of the RPM-based Distros are covered. Probably Fedora has the exact same packages available as well, but it would be a matter of looking into it when I have the time.

For niche distros like VOID, Slackware and Gentoo, I am afraid you are on your own, but if anyone reading this finds out a way, then please do share as well.