Re: [LAU] jackd & debian problems

Dragan Noveski wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:57:14AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
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>>> On 4/18/07, Josh Lawrence <hardbop200@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> there must be some way in debian to say, "don't worry about the jackd
>>>> dependency, I've already got that installed." or am I doomed to
>>>> compile everything from source now that I've compiled jack from
>>>> source? is it all or nothing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Can't you just build a .deb of the new jackd?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This issue has me stuck right now too. I need jack 103 and also I
>> want to try jackdmp again too.
>>
>> The debian packages for jack 101 and jack 102 are really weird.
>> Either they weren't done correctly, or my debian knowlege is not
>> up-to-date with the latest hip and happenin' tools.
>>
>> I have successfully built, backported, and/or upgraded packages for
>> several audio apps for Etch
>> (http://www.restivo.org/projects/debian/various-etch-audio-backports/).
>> But jackd has not given me any success and tomorrow I think I'll have
>> to focus on it and try to get it working. It's "in my critical path"
>> since jack 102 and freebob 1.0.3 are inoperative on my Core 2 Duo.
>>
>> If the version you want is already in testing or unstable but didn't
>> make it into Etch, it's pretty simple. Just get the original source,
>> diff file, an dsc file by going to http://pacakges.debian.org, then:
>> dpkg-source -x $the_dsc_file
>> cd $source_subdir
>> debuild -uc -us
>>
>> Updating packages to a version that isn't yet in debian (not even
>> unstable), is really easy. I did this with freebob.
>> wget $orignal_source_for_version_not_yet_in_debian
>> apt-get source $old_package
>> cd $source_subdir
>> uupdate ../$orignal_source_for_version_not_yet_in_debian
>> cd ../$new_source_dir (uupdate will tell you its name)
>> debuild -uc -us
>>
>> Alas, none of the above have worked for JACK. Whatever tool is being
>> used complains about not being able to apply patches.
>>
>> Someone already posted the dh_make tricks to add a package that isn't
>> in debian at all. I find it's a little bit harder than that, but not
>> much. I may try making a whole new package from scratch for JACK and
>> jackdmp, and see how that goes.
>>
>>
>> - -ken
>>
>>
> otherwise, another method that could work is "check install".
> i used it to install alsalibs0.1.14rc3
off course 1.0.14rc3.
> so that synaptic is happy now:
>
> http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/checkinstall/
>
> cheers,
> doc
>
>
the good thing here is that you apply the patches you self and as
normally run configure and make. only for 'make install' you use the
checkinstall appi.

cheers,
doc
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Received on Thu Apr 19 12:15:04 2007