wicd, medibuntu, and ardour from source

Network manager has never worked well for me.  I have a Intel 3945ABG wireless card.  I always install Wicd because I like it. :)

 deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras

 sudo apt-get install wicd

This will automaticaly uninstall network-manager and add wicd to be started on login. 


I end up needing proprietary codecs and such, so next is to add the medibunu repository.

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get -q update && sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get -q update

Next, I install dependcies for ardour.  Details at http://ardour.org/building.

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev scons gettext pkg-config libtool libjack-dev libxml2-dev libart-dev libsamplerate-dev libraptor-dev liblrdf-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev liblo-dev libboost-dev libfftw3-dev libaubio-dev 

Get a newer lv2core package from here: http://lv2plug.in/spec/ 

Follow the install instructions.

./waf configure

./waf

sudo ./waf install

Get the slv2 package from here: http://drobilla.net/software/slv2/ 

Get dependencies:

sudo apt-get install librdf-dev

./waf configure

./waf

sudo ./waf install 

 Get the latests srouce from Ardour.org or the repo:

sudo apt-get source ardour
cd ardour-2.8/
scons --help

Check the scons output for errors and that support for LV2 is good.
My output looks like:



brian@64studio:~/src/ardour-2.8$ scons --help
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Checking for pkg-config version >= 0.8.0... yes
Checking for gthread-2.0... yes
Checking for lrdf... yes
Checking for libgnomecanvas-2.0... yes
Checking for gtk+-2.0... yes
Checking for jack... yes
Checking for samplerate... yes
Checking for glib-2.0... yes
Checking for libxml-2.0... yes
Checking for raptor... yes
Checking for fftw3f...yes
Checking for fftw3...yes
Checking for aubio...yes
Checking for C header file fftw3.h... yes
FREESOUND support is not enabled.  Build with 'scons FREESOUND=1' to enable.
Checking for slv2... yes
WIIMOTE not enabled. Build with 'scons WIIMOTE=1' to enable support.
Congratulations, you have a functioning C++ compiler.
system triple: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Checking for C header file fftw3.h... yes
Checking for usb_interrupt_write() in C library usb... no
Checking for C header file linux/input.h... yes
Checking for FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_init() in C++ library FLAC... no
Checking for C++ header file boost/shared_ptr.hpp... yes
Checking for lo_server_new() in C library lo... yes
Checking for dmalloc_shutdown() in C library dmallocth... no
Checking for C header file alsa/asoundlib.h... yes
Disabled building Tranzport code because libusb could not be found
Checking for internationalization support ...
Found xgettext
Found msgmerge
Checking for C header file libintl.h... yes
International version will be built.
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/Headers/CoreAudio.h... no
Checking for C function posix_memalign()... yes
Checking for C function gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text()... yes


scons: warning: Ignoring missing SConscript 'manual/SConscript'

File "/home/brian/src/ardour-2.8/SConstruct", line 1427, in
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Headers/CoreServices.h... no
Checking for C function getmntent()... yes
Checking for C header file execinfo.h... yes
Checking for jack_client_open()...yes
Checking for jack_recompute_total_latencies()...yes
Checking for JackVideoFrameOffset in jack_position_bits_t enum...yes
Checking for jack_port_ensure_monitor_input()...yes
Checking for C header file wordexp.h... yes
Checking for C header file sys/vfs.h... yes
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreMIDI.framework/Headers/CoreMIDI.h... no
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Headers/ExtendedAudioFile.h... no
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Headers/CoreAudio.h... no
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AudioUnit.h... no
Checking for jack_set_thread_creator()...yes
scons: done reading SConscript files.

ARCH: Set architecture-specific compilation flags by hand (all flags as 1 argument)
    default:
    actual:

WINDOWS_KEY: Set X Modifier (Mod1,Mod2,Mod3,Mod4,Mod5) for "Windows" key
    default: Mod4>
    actual: Mod4>

AUDIOUNITS: Compile with Apple's AudioUnit library. (experimental) (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

COREAUDIO: Compile with Apple's CoreAudio library (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

GTKOSX: Compile for use with GTK-OSX, not GTK-X11 (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

OLDFONTS: Old school font sizes (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

DEBUG: Set to build with debugging information and no optimizations (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

STL_DEBUG: Set to build with Standard Template Library Debugging (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

DESTDIR: Set the intermediate install "prefix" ( /path/to/DESTDIR )
    default: /
    actual: /

DIST_TARGET: Build target for cross compiling packagers (auto|i386|i686|x86_64|powerpc|tiger|panther|leopard|none)
    default: auto
    actual: i686

DMALLOC: Compile and link using the dmalloc library (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

EXTRA_WARN: Compile with -Wextra, -ansi, and -pedantic.  Might break compilation.  For pedants (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

FFT_ANALYSIS: Include FFT analysis window (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

FREESOUND: Include Freesound database lookup (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

FPU_OPTIMIZATION: Build runtime checked assembler code (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

LIBLO: Compile with support for liblo library (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

NLS: Set to turn on i18n support (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

PREFIX: Set the install "prefix" ( /path/to/PREFIX )
    default: /usr/local
    actual: /usr/local

SURFACES: Build support for control surfaces (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

WIIMOTE: Build the wiimote control surface (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

SYSLIBS: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK: CANCELS ALL SUPPORT FROM ARDOUR AUTHORS: Use existing system versions of various libraries instead of internal ones (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

UNIVERSAL: Compile as universal binary.  Requires that external libraries are already universal. (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

VERSIONED: Add revision information to ardour/gtk executable name inside the build directory (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

VST: Compile with support for VST (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

LV2: Compile with support for LV2 (if slv2 is available) (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: True

GPROFILE: Compile with support for gprofile (Developers only) (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

FREEDESKTOP: Install MIME type, icons and .desktop file as per the freedesktop.org spec (requires xdg-utils and shared-mime-info). "scons uninstall" removes associations in desktop database (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

TRANZPORT: Compile with support for Frontier Designs (if libusb is available) (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: 0

AUBIO: Use Paul Brossier's aubio library for feature detection (if available) (yes|no)
    default: 1
    actual: 1

AUSTATE: Build with support for AU settings & presets saving/loading (yes|no)
    default: 0
    actual: False

If you are interested in ardour-x-change(http://www.avtoolkit.co.uk/) which addes AAF/OMF support, you can pledge some money towards the feature in Ardour's Mantis:  http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=2652 
The creator of AxC will send you the current version which runs in wine.  The donation is for a native version to be written.

Build away!

scons

If all goes well:

sudo scons install