Trouble is: gentoo: barfs on the compile - I will report it to someone who cares.
suse: is version ardour-cvs20020816-44.i586.rpm (in suse 8.1). For software that is only provided from cvs because the author does not want to support anything over 3 HOURS old, August 2002 is just to old (I did NOT check suse updates) On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:51:59 -0800 "G. M. Bodnar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Bell is on permanent record as saying: > :So, Nick and Volker, are you saying that if I install Gentoo or SuSe, I get > :Ardour installed too? > : > :Can I do that as straight from the install CD, or do I still need to > :"compile" it somehow? Maybe install from source and compile as it goes? > :Really sorry if this is a dumb qn, as you can see, I really don't > :understand. > > Installing gentoo requires you to compile everything, which is why > ardour is available. However, as Nick mentioned, the dependency checks > are handled in the process. > > As for SuSe, you'll want to get the version number of that distrobution. > As I mentioned, the author has asked that binaries not be distributed > yet. It may have been included in only one release of SuSe, and after > that, will likely be a relatively out of date version, given that the > author is developing on this project full time at the moment. > > Given that you are new to Linux, I am hesitant to recommend trying > gentoo, since it requires a lot of compiling. SuSe might be a better > option if you just want to check ardour out. If you want all the > up-to-date changes, you'll likely have to get to know your compiler and > tools. > > Greg > --- - > -- "All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update." - theregister.co.uk
