Installation on Debian

Introduction

There no packages of laditools and ladish for Debian yet, so they should be installed from GIT.

First, install "jackd" version 2 with D-Bus enabled as described for "unstable" and "stable" below.

JACK2

Debian "sid"

Uninstall any jackd packages:

aptitude remove jackd jackd1 jackd2

Install standard jackd2 sources from  jackaudio.org (version 1.9.5) as follows:

tar xjf jack-1.9.5.tar.bz2
cd jack-1.9.5
./waf configure --prefix=/usr --dbus
./waf build
su -c "./waf install"

Proceed to section "LADISH" below.

Debian "squeeze", "lenny"

In the older releases, apparently for package dependency reasons, a packaged jackd is required.

The following procedure was tested with the "master.jackd2" branch from  the Debian GIT repository. The produced packages act as drop-in replacements, and most packages depending on jack/libjack will continue to work.

lenny: debuild

git clone --branch master.jackd2 git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/jack-audio-connection-kit.git
cd jack-audio-connection-kit
debuild
cd ..
dpkg -i jackd_1.9.5-1_amd64.deb libjack0_1.9.5-1_amd64.deb libjack-dev_1.9.5-1_amd64.deb

squeeze: git-buildpackage

As with 04/25/2010 the source package format has beend changed to version "3.0 (quilt)", and the simple build approach using "debuild" does not work anymore (since there is no "orig" tar file). The solution is to use "git-buildpackage" was a wrapper for "debuild". First, install "git-buildpackage":

aptitude install git-buildpackage

Then you can build and install the package as follows:

git clone --branch master.jackd2 git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/jack-audio-connection-kit.git
cd jack-audio-connection-kit
git-buildpackage --git-debian-branch=master.jackd2 --git-upstream-branch=master.jackd2 --git-builder=debuild
cd ..
dpkg -i jackd_1.9.5~dfsg-1_amd64.deb libjack0_1.9.5~dfsg-1_amd64.deb libjack-dev_1.9.5~dfsg-1_amd64.deb

LADISH

Finally, install LADISH from source as described in the installation instructions.

Note: I prefer to install everything into /usr by issuing

./waf configure --prefix=/usr

at configuration time.

As an alternative, you can only install the D-Bus service files into /etc, everything else into /usr/local:

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

Additional Software (recommended)

Finally, I install laditools (from GIT) and  a2jmidid (from GIT).