On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:07:16 +0000 Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > On 12/21/20 7:51 PM, John Murphy wrote: > > Mint 20 on an intel NUC > > > > I think I must be missing an obvious step here. Following instructions > > from the qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf section 2.2. Hadn't used > > 'apt-get build-dep' before, so I tried it: > > > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep qtractor > > Reading package lists... Done > > E: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list > > > > I usually use Synaptic to install dependencies, so I went that way, but: > > > > john@NUC1:~/qtractor-0.9.19/src$ ./configure --help > > bash: ./configure: No such file or directory > > > > and, sure enough, there is no such file. > > > > Do I need to install 'autoconf' and run that somehow? > > > > yes, you need to install autoconf and a buch of other -dev packages as > well... and the correct source tree is probably > john@NUC1:~/qtractor-0.9.19 (not under src) where you may find a couple > of README files that might interest you first than reading the > (outdated) user manual... It was an interesting diversion and autoconf didn't seem too difficult, but I gave up at automake with a greater appreciation of easier ways. ( I was following http://mij.oltrelinux.com/devel/autoconf-automake/ ) > > but,IMHO you'll be far better with some pre-built packages from one of > the repositories listed here: > https://launchpad.net/~rncbc > assuming the "focal" is the one for you: > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rncbc/focal > sudo apt-get update > then you may either use Synaptic or the command line to install the > complete and fully-functional qtractor package: > sudo apt-get install qtractor Done in a flash that way. Thank you. And found my u-he Repro-1 VST2. Sorted! :) -- Thanks again. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
