Recently I was looking for audio recording and processing software for Linux. I came across the Ardour project, and was most impressed by what I read.
This entry describes my travails getting it built and running...
I first obtained the source from the SourceForge project site. I untarred it into a working directory, and set about reading the docs. It required a few libraries that I didn't have. I apt-get installed nearly all of the pre-requisites (I run Debian GNU/Linux) and was 90&pc; there. The libraries that weren't packaged for Debian were libraptor and liblrdf. I downloaded the source tarballs for them and set about making .deb's for them. It was surprisingly easy (luckily for me). I ran dh_make to get started, then customised the debian/rules file, changed the debian/control file and ran dpkg-buildpackage with fakeroot. After a few false starts and tweaking, I had 2 debs ready to go.
Once I had installed the fresh packages, I then went ahead and built ardour itself. This took quite a while. I then installed it and went to run it. It was at this point I came across a problem with the JACK server and kernel capabilities, which I have yet to resolve.
Stay tuned for part II, where I might even upload the packages I built so that others can snarf a copy.
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