-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:16:59PM +0100, James Stone wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:19:14AM -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote: > > > > So where did I go wrong? I've been reading Ken Restivo's blog lately > > (great blog, b/t/w), and he has actually built debian packages from Thanks! > > source of what he needs - is that the solution I'm looking for? Is my > > approach good or flawed, and what should I do differently? > I did it the hard way. Because, that's just the way I do stuff. I wouldn't recommend it. The easy way would be to install UbuntuStudio, Musix, 64studio, etc. > Basically if something depends on the old version of jack, then > yes the best method would be to make a new package that depends > on the up to date version, or alternatively wait for the > packagers to sort it out. > > One last option is just to install the program as a non-debian > package. I do this quite a lot because it is much quicker than > debianizing everything, but it is not the recommended approach, > and it leads to breakages if you install a debian version of a > package you installed from source. > That's what I had to do in order to get Ardour2 going, since the Debian package uses SYSLIBS=1 and thusly makes it non-functional on my machine. I tried checkinstall too, but that had issues: apparently the Ardour2 scons target tries to make symlinks for /usr/bin/gcc, and dpkg rightly refused to allow it to something so dangerous. I also tried hacking the Debian ardour2 package to take out the SYSLIBS, but that didn't work either. Finally I filed a bugs.debian.org problem report and just let Free and Gunther et al deal with it. FWIW, my /usr/local/bin looks like this: aseq2jackmidi ardour2 chuck cygnal dumpOSC elven elven_guiloader ghostess ghostess_universal_gui gtf ingen ingen_load jace jack_capture jack_mididump ladspa2lv2 lv2_inspect lv2_jack_host lv2_list lv2peg lv2_simple_jack_host midi_led.py midirgui paqtest patchage phasex roll sendOSC sockettest tuneit zynjacku zynjacku.py Everything else is in Debian packages (via sid). - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVJKMe8HF+6xeOIcRAlSLAKCZkSbfLzDF6pnvm5wrMpOnb3T8+ACbBRFr o5A4RkDx/pEdN285phAuhYA= =9CxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
