[LAU] ardour3 on debian stable

[Ken Restivo]

I've had good luck running nix on stable. When I need latest bleeding edge stuff, I can pull it in through nix without disturbing my nice stodgy stable system.

nix is basically an overlay distro that uses immutability and hashes, like git, clojure, and couchbase.

-ken
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:53:05AM +0100, Milan Lazecky wrote:
> Hi,
> thank you for information - I was hoping crunchbang was from unstable... I
> have it on my netbook few days and working well.
> But anyway, unstable debian should be well prepared system and if you don't
> have "old iron" (as me) and want to do good stuff, using ardour3 etc, I
> would really recommend you to upgrade into unstable. Living on the edge is
> the only way to see further, I would say.
> 
> Milan
> 
> 
> 2013/12/12 Atte <atte at youmail.dk>
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm runing crunchbang linux, which essentially is debian stable. I'm
> > having trouble getting ardour3 working, tried both the source tarball,
> > checking out from git and the paid-for download from ardour.org. Let's
> > take the later:
> >
> > atte at skagen:~/software/ardour3$ sudo dpkg -i
> > ardour3_3.5.74~dfsg-1_i386.deb
> > [sudo] password for atte:
> > Selecting previously unselected package ardour3.
> > (Reading database ... 208603 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking ardour3 (from ardour3_3.5.74~dfsg-1_i386.deb) ...
> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ardour3:
> >  ardour3 depends on libc6 (>= 2.17); however:
> >   Version of libc6:i386 on system is 2.13-38.
> >  ardour3 depends on libfftw3-double3; however:
> >   Package libfftw3-double3 is not installed.
> >  ardour3 depends on libfftw3-single3; however:
> >   Package libfftw3-single3 is not installed.
> >  ardour3 depends on libflac8 (>= 1.3.0); however:
> >   Version of libflac8:i386 on system is 1.2.1-6.
> >  ardour3 depends on libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11); however:
> >   Version of libfontconfig1:i386 on system is 2.9.0-7.1.
> >  ardour3 depends on libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.36.2); however:
> >   Version of libglibmm-2.4-1c2a:i386 on system is 2.32.1-1.
> >  ardour3 depends on libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0); however:
> >   Package libpango-1.0-0 is not installed.
> >  ardour3 depends on libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0); however:
> >   Package libpangocairo-1.0-0 is not installed.
> >  ardour3 depends on libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0); however:
> >   Package libpangoft2-1.0-0 is not installed.
> >
> > dpkg: error processing ardour3 (--install):
> >  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> > Processing triggers for man-db ...
> > Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
> > Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
> > Processing triggers for menu ...
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  ardour3
> >
> > Hmmm. So ardour3 is dependent libs with higher version numbers than my
> > system provides. Needless to say, I don't want to break my system doing
> > this, so in stead of just poking around, I'd rather ask here:
> >
> > What are the steps needed to safely install the dependencies for ardour3
> > on a debian stable system?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> > --
> > Atte
> >
> > http://atte.dk   http://modlys.dk
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