Installing from distro package

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Gentoo
• Exherbo
• Mandriva
• Opensuse
• Arch Linux
• Tango Studio

Some distros have ladish preinstalled:

•  KXStudio
•  Ubuntu Studio
•  io GNU/Linux
•  ArtistX

Installing from source

Obtaining the source

You can obtain the latest source tarball from here. Or you can obtain the source tree through  GIT by cloning:

git clone git://repo.or.cz/ladish.git

Installing dependencies

Sources for some of the requirements, the ones that may be seen as unusual, are bundled in the release tarballs.

• JACK
• a2jmidid
• laditools
• flowcanvas

For git clones, you can get them at once like this:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Build requirements (tools, headers and libraries):

• You need gcc for C and C++
• You need D-Bus  http://dbus.freedesktop.org/
• You need libuuid from e2fsprogs  http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
• You need the expat XML parser  http://expat.sourceforge.net/
• Python  http://python.org/

Optional build requirements, without them GUI frontend will not be built:

• You need glib
• You need dbus-glib
• You need gtk+
• You need libglade
• You need flowcanvas

Runtime requirements:

• JACK with D-Bus support - really required
• LADI Tools - strongly recommended (unless you are a hardcore, you want it)
• a2jmidid - strongly recommended if you use ALSA seq MIDI apps.

Configuring the build system

ladish requires jackdbus and thus the --dbus option has to be supplied to ./waf configure. If you want to have jackd as well (it is harder to manage mixed jackd+jackdbus but still possible), you have to supply --classic as well, because --dbus disables jackd unless --classic is supplied as well.

You have to decide where you want to install.

The default is to install in /usr/local. Chances are that simply installing in /usr/local will not work as expected because often only /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ is inspected by the D-Bus daemon and you will get the ladish service registration file in {{{/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services}/}}.

If you choose to install in /usr/local, you have to either tweak the D-Bus system configuration or specify the --enable-pkg-config-dbus-service-dir that will cause only the service registration file to be installed in /usr, other files will getting installed in /usr/local:

./waf configure --dbus --enable-pkg-config-dbus-service-dir

If you choose to install to /usr, configure like this:

./waf configure --dbus --prefix=/usr

Building

./waf

Installing

As root:

./waf install

If you use sudo:

sudo ./waf install

Don't forget to rebuild the dynamic linker cache by running ldconfig as root

sudo ldconfig

Now what?

You probably want to read the tutorial.