[ardour-users] apt-get problems

[Brett McCoy]

Paul Davis wrote:

> note that if you do any system tinkering on debian, you are at risk of
> breaking ardour. for example, casually moving up to a newer version of 
> g++. debian packages of ardour are built against the system-wide version
> of several C++ packages; if they do not exactly match the ones expected
> by ardour at run time (and were not compiled in the precise way), ardour
> will break in odd ways.
> 
> if you do not tinker with debian, this is almost certainly not a
> problem.

When I build ardour, I think I have to specify the g++ version to use. 
It (and Rosegarden) seem to be happier with 3.3 on Debian rather than 4.

-- Brett