Can linuxsampler run on libgig6

[alecjcook]

Hi,
While compiling the source code for linuxsampler I received the following message:

Required libgig version not found!
You need to have libgig version 3.2.1 installed!

I have libgig6 installed on my OS, because I can't get libgig-3.2.1 installed. Can I not force linuxsampler to use libgig6 somehow?

Cheers

[ggoodesa]

I don't know how to get linuxsampler to use the Ubuntu built libgig6... but I do know how to get rid of libgig6 so that the Debian build of libgig-3.2.1 can be installed. You will need to use Synaptic, search for Qsampler, make sure it either unistalled or select the complete uninstall option. Then do a search for gigedit, do the same, then do a search for gigtools, make sure complete uninstall is selected, finally do a search for libgig and make sure that complete uninstall is selected. (I'm not on my Ubuntu computer at the moment, so this is from memory - I will check this a little later today).

Then you are free to install libgig-3.2.1 and the libgig-dev so that you can compile linuxsampler if you need to.

GrahamG

[camobrite]

I got rid of libgig6 on my debian system by entering (as root):

apt-get purge libgig6

This removes all of the libgig6 files, including configuration files. Then I was able to locally install linuxsampler's libgig package. Also, you should use synaptic/aptitude to hold your linuxsampler packages at their current version, otherwise apt might reinstall libgig6. IMHO, the fact that it excludes linuxsampler packages from the standard debian/ubuntu/$LINUX repositories is THE biggest problem with the non-commercial license, since it makes installation such an unnecessary pain. It would be so nice to just apt-get linuxsampler!

[camobrite]

This is explained here.