Linthesia is a fork of the Windows/Mac game called Synthesia. It is a game of playing music using a MIDI keyboard (or your PC keyboard), following a .mid file.

Synthesia up to version 0.6.1a is Open Source. This project uses the latest source from sourceforge.

To compile, you need a basic c++ toolchain, and satisfy all dependences which are on BUILD-DEPENDS file. Then, just:

$ meson --prefix /usr build
$ ninja -C build
$ ninja -C build install #probably with sudo

• In most case, just run /usr/bin/linthesia binary, and Enjoy :-)
• Linthesia provides you with several musics that will be installed in /usr/share/linthesia/music/ you can use --lib-path to define an other path when required. (read linthesia -h since last used path is preserved).
• Linthesia will use anything it finds to play sound. You might want to install fluidsynth or TiMidity++ to run the midi server required for it to produce a sound. You keyboard might provide output that can (probably) be used too, if wanted.

Visit https://github.com/linthesia/linthesia for more info.

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/linthesia/linthesia