[ardour-users] Setting up a gentoo box for ardour

[Mark Knecht]

On 3/11/06, Thomas G. Willis <tom.willis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/11/06, Andrew Johnston <andyandtaya at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Okay in answering my own question I thought I'd post it to help anyone
> else.  I looked at the package script from the gentoo portage site, and saw
> that it was looking explicitly for fltk, and if it wasn't installed then it
> wouldn't compile the hdspmixer and hdspconf.  So I just added it to my USE
> flags and emerge went and fetched fltk first, and then whalla!
> > So I'm happy now, after two straight days of compiling I have a bare bones
> ardour system...I will be writing up a little howto soon, so others don't
> have to go through such a steep learning curve.
> >
> > Keep it up ardour fans...the revolution has just begun...
> >
> > Andy J =)
> >
> >
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>  Man, gentoo makes me feel like a moron. I build j2ee systems or a living
> too :) Anywho looking forward to the howto, I haven't quite figured out this
> emerge thing yet, I guess apt has spoiled me.
>
>  If anyone cares to post some how to install ardour on gentoo I'd appreciate
> it. I'm not getting this masked package deal yet.
>

Pretty easy once you get the hang of it. I'm making some assumptions
about packages on the system. If they are not there post back.

eix-sync

The eix-sync command is the rougg equivalent of apt-get update. It
downloads new ebuilds and updates databases so you know what's in
portage

emerge -pv system
emerge system
emerge -pv world
emerge world

The commands above will update the system files and everything in your
specific world file. (/var/log/portage/world if you want to look at
what's there. 'system' is defined by the devs...) I always do a -pv
version to see what the system is going to do before I do it and what
compile time USE flags will be used for each package.

emerge -pv ardour

would emerge what ever is in portage and considered stable

Adding things to /etc/portage/package.keywords like

media-sound/ardour ~x86

will allow portage to build the testing version of a package.

emerge -pv --deep --update --newuse world

will do a very complete update of your system

emerge -pv --depclean

will remove packages you system doesn't need anymore. Use it carefully
and only after completing emerge --deep --update --newuse world.

revdep-rebuild -p will check your system for missing stuff and
re-emerge it for you.

Adding USE flags to /etc/portage/package.use like this:

x11-misc/xscreensaver new-login

will cuse portage to build with specific features enabled by the USE
flag. (In this case 'new-login')

Additions to package.mask will tell portage to use certain packages,
or certain ranges of packages.

lightning ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask
#>app-emulation/wine-0.9.2
#<x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.18.8-r1
#>x11-base/x11-drm-20050807
#>net-www/mplayerplug-in-3.11
lightning ~ #

See, not too difficult! ;-)

- Mark