Okay, I have downloaded all of the tarballs I saw were necessary to build this software (I think) and am have a helluva time building this puppy. Where do I start? I Downloaded Python, which I didn’t need, after searching around for ages to find the command prompt (which is called the Terminal in Ubuntu if you were wondering) and was able to build Scons.
Next steps? I have no idea! I need to build a bunch of other things, including libraries and such, and really have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve been at this for a few hours now (which I KNOW to be a wrong thing, since it shouldn’t be this hard) and would welcome any advice that you can give me on this topic. I am a newbie to Linux, and I suppose I shouldn’t have chosen something so involved as my first build in the system, but hey, at least I’ll know how to do it for everything else I have to do!
Thanks to any and all who read this and are able to give me some pointers.
Hello, I can give you the list of development (library) packages I had to make sure were installed when I started building Ardour on my Ubuntu system, hopefully it’s a good start to get you rolling with minimal hassle. Note that this list was back for Dapper I think, some names may be changed slightly for version skew: