blockflute wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 7:26 pm
Thank you - I didn't realise the KX repos still pointed to a lot of Ubuntu stuff.
KX Studios is a strange beast in that regard. Some internet advice says don't use PPAs on Debian but KX is generally compatible with Debian. I have quite a lot of plugins and applications from KX installed on Debian Bullseye. Currently the KX repo points to "bionic" so you can list packages installed from there (proving it's the only bionic repo) with
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aptitude search '?narrow(?installed, ?archive(bionic))'
You need aptitude installed, of course. There are many useful packages from KX repos so I'd never remove that.
Concerning Ardour, if you
apt-mark hold it will never update from its current version. Better to pin it with apt preferences. Create a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ called 99ardour with something like:
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# Never prefer Ardour from KX repo
Package: ardour
Pin: origin kx.studio
Pin-Priority: 1
I always find apt preferences to require a little voodoo.
I just did this on my Bullseye system which had the KX version installed and still had to force the version to make it upgrade over as apt considered it a downgrade. The preferences should keep Ardour from Debian in future upgrades, hopefully.
I also pinned Ardour to highest priority from Debian but that's probably not necessary along with the KX prefs file.
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# Prefer Ardour from Debian repo
Package: ardour
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority:1001