[Ardour-Users] best installation of ardour

[Michael Neumeier]

Am 29.09.2009 um 12:20 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:

> Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, jonathan wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering what is the best way to install ardour. Should I  
>>> just
>>> install the package from my distro or should I download it form the
>>> site. If I do get it from my distro which is the best for ardour?  
>>> If I
>>> download it from the site and there is an update for ardour is it  
>>> easy
>>> to update or do I have to redownload the whole program again to  
>>> get the
>>> update? Thanks for your help.
>>
>> A lot of that depends on what distro you're using, but generally  
>> it's better to use the package management tools that are provided  
>> by your distro.  Those tools often make the task of resolving  
>> dependencies much easier.  Note that some distro maintainers take  
>> longer than others to make updates available, so if you need some  
>> functionality or a bug fix that's only available in the latest SVN  
>> build, then you might need to roll Ardour from source.
>>
>> Many distros (Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and several  
>> others that I'm aware of) will run Ardour well, so your choice of  
>> distro is largely based on your experience and comfort level and  
>> other concerns, such as how easy it is to get your audio interface  
>> working with a particular distro.
>>
>> To get the most out of Ardour, you need to have a kernel that's  
>> built for real-time operation, which requires either the  
>> application of a set of patches to your existing kernel source  
>> tree, getting an already-patched kernel source tree, downloading  
>> and installing a package that contains a pre-built kernel that  
>> includes the real-time patch cluster.  How you accomplish that is,  
>> again, based largely on your choice of distro.
>>
>> jms
>
> Full ACK.
>
> If you like to do arts with Linux, 64 Studio is a very comfortable,  
> stable distro that is set up for real-time usage by default and  
> ships with audio, animation, graphic applications by default. It has  
> it's advantages, but also disadvantages. I prefer 64 Studio. The  
> actual 3.0-beta3 is stable.
>
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/64studio.com/installer/
>

I am using Ubuntu Studio:

http://ubuntustudio.org/

You may get both 32 and 64 bit version of it.

 From my point of view, a special distribution about this is an  
excellent idea, because the creators of these distributions usually  
take care a lot about correct working of it - and you don´t have to  
take care about that rt-kernel needed (which, btw, is the best point:  
Compiling your own kernel is quite a difficult thing after all - and  
you cannot really check all the possible consequences in an installed  
system). You may certainly also install Ardour in other distros, but I  
also see some points of security: My Ubuntu Studio system has quite  
some things disabled, although they are present after installation.  
One example would be: Do I really need some network services on this  
system? Do I need a IM tool? No, because I produce music with it and it 
´s not intended to used to surf around and chat.

On the other side, I am still searching for a better distro, because  
Ubuntu Studio is using the Ubuntu repositories by default - and to  
tell you the truth, I found quite some tools that do not have to be  
installed in a studio area imho. 64 Studio could be a solution, but  
this only exists for 64 bit (as fart as I know) and I decided to run  
in 32 bit mode (although I have a 64bit CPU in the PC), because of  
some reasons that were mentioned by Ralf Mardorf. So if any of you  
know another finished studio distro, please let us know. Thanks.

Regards,
Dennis