[Ardour-Dev] Building A3 on Fedora14

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Sun Mar 6 18:08:54 PST 2011


On 03/06/2011 12:07 PM, Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Am 06.03.2011 20:46, schrieb Paul Davis:
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Hartmut Noack<zettberlin at linuxuse.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you think it is possible/sensible to have both variants of jack
>>> installed?
>>
>> this is an incredibly dangerous idea. its not impossible to do this.
>> the overwhelming majority of linux users do not know how, nor do they
>> want to, nor should they need to. the basic rule remains: NEVER
>> install multiple versions of JACK (or any software that consists of a
>> server and a client-side library) on your machine unless you have no
>> reservations about calling yourself a unix guru.
>
> So in a word possible:yes, sensible:no ...
>
> I will not jeopardize my perfectly running CCRMA/Fedora and install
> Ubuntu1010 instead on a spare partition. Anyway, I only need a test-bed
> for A3, I do not plan to use it for day-to-day recordings ;-)

I don't currently have packages for jack1, otherwise it would be 
possible to remove (ignoring dependencies) jack2, install jack1, compile 
and then test with either. I'll see if I get time to build something...

-- Fernando



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