ubuntu 16.04

[superprick]

just testing the latest daily. tried to install the kx repos. they install but looks like the gcc5 patch doesnt. cant install meta-all due to broken dependency. not a big deal. can work around.
Only a heads up as its being release in 1.5 months

[shiftydog]

Confirmed. Here's the broken dependency chain...

kxstudio-meta-all fails because kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins can't be installed.
kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins fails because guitarix, amsynth, gigedit etc. can't be installed.
guitarix (for example) fails on the following..

libatkmm-1.6-1 (>= 2.22.1) but it is not installable
libcairomm-1.0-1 (>= 1.6.4) but it is not installable
libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.36.2) but it is not installable
libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.24.0) but it is not installable
libpangomm-1.4-1 (>= 2.27.1) but it is not installable
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) but it is not installable

Both kxstudio-repos_9.2.2~kxstudio1_all and kxstudio-repos-gcc5_9.2.2~kxstudio1_all are installed, system updated and upgraded.

It looks like xenial just has newer versions of the above dependencies than kxstudio needs. I'm in love with 16.04 xenial, but to me, kxstudio is a must have, so I'll be staying on the 14.04 lts release until this one can be corrected.

falkTX - thank you so much for your work.

[shiftydog]

I realize you're probably up to your face in assessing the scope of this (thanks again), but there's one more little one.

kxstudio-menu doesn't do anything. Haven't figured out why yet.

[shiftydog]

The menu thing really isn't that important, just thought I'd mention.

Another user, warkus, reported the failure to install guitarix from the kxstudio repos, with the same dependency failure. I do see the same behaviour, and the gcc5 repo is definitely installed, system updated, dist-upgrade... all steps followed. As you mess around with 16.04 you will for sure see the same. It looks like it's affecting a number of packages (about a dozen or so), and so is failing three meta installs.

[shiftydog]

Very strange. I'm going to reapply my 16.04 image and check things out again. Could I ask you to please post your versions of the following...

libatkmm-1.6-1 (>= 2.22.1) but it is not installable
libcairomm-1.0-1 (>= 1.6.4) but it is not installable
libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.36.2) but it is not installable
libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.24.0) but it is not installable
libpangomm-1.4-1 (>= 2.27.1) but it is not installable
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) but it is not installable

I realize you're not able to immediately reproduce the problem, but I've seen it in both a virtual instance as well as full install of kubuntu 16.04. If you could share your versions, I'll try to figure it out and post back what I find.

Thanks again!

[shiftydog]

Still checking, but here's the output...

billy@billy-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libglibmm-2.4-1c2a
[sudo] password for billy:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libglibmm-2.4-1c2a is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However, the following packages replace it:
libglibmm-2.4-1v5:i386 libglibmm-2.4-1v5

E: Package 'libglibmm-2.4-1c2a' has no installation candidate
billy@billy-laptop:~$

[shiftydog]

FYI - Booted into the installation media.

kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install libglibmm-2.4-1c2a
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libglibmm-2.4-1c2a is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
libglibmm-2.4-1v5

E: Package 'libglibmm-2.4-1c2a' has no installation candidate
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$

[shiftydog]

Think I found it. I was using QApt Package Installer to install the gcc5 package. Went back to look, and found it wasn't actually installed. Used dpkg directly to try to install again, and found I needed to pre-install libglibmm-2.4-1v5. Once that was done, the gcc5 package successfully installed.

I've just begun a full install (including meta-all), and so far looks good.

Once it's complete I'll post back.

[shiftydog]

Issue resolved - my bad, sorry.

Thanks falkTX for your attention. I'm jammin again.

[Broomy]

I made two fresh installations of kubuntu 16.04 with KXstudio repositories and used the kxstudio-meta-all and the file that changes my settings of my system to get all the goodies.
After that I added myself to the audio group, installed kxstudio-desktop-base and kubuntu-desktop
Finally I installed the lowlatency-kernel.

I realized again what a wealth of software we have available, so thank you falkTX and all others who are involved in developing.

I noticed a few things (on both laptops, one new and one which had kubuntu 14.04 on it) :
- I lost the option of CPU-scaling in Cadence
- When using the onboard soundcard I can't adjust the volume anymore when pressing fn-f9, fn-f10 and fn-f11 buttons, but have to start alsamixer in a terminal to adjust the volume.

Did I forget something or are these features no longer available?


Thanks in advance!

Hans

[Broomy]

Ok thanks,

but does that mean that...
(looking round to make sure nobody is overhearing this and with a whisper voice...)
... I have to install pulseaudio to make the fn buttons work?



Hans

[Broomy]

Thanks I'll check it out.

[polosson]

Hello there !

First of... Thanks a lot @falkTX to your amazing work, that makes our lives really easier with audio on Linux!!

@Broomy: As falktx said, you just have to install kmix, this will act like alsamixer in a nice windowed user interface Note that you may have to choose the "master channel" you want to be controlled by the main menu in system tray, and re-set a keyboard shortcut to volume control. All this can be done in kmix menu.

Then I wanted to ask @shiftydog how he managed to solve his dependency issue. I have the same here, trying to install eq10q package and have this output (sorry, It's in french but it's quite obvious):

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eq10q : Dépend: libatkmm-1.6-1 (>= 2.22.1) mais il n'est pas installable
         Dépend: libcairomm-1.0-1 (>= 1.6.4) mais il n'est pas installable
         Dépend: libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.36.2) mais il n'est pas installable
         Dépend: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.24.0) mais il n'est pas installable
         Dépend: libpangomm-1.4-1 (>= 2.27.1) mais il n'est pas installable
         Dépend: libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) mais il n'est pas installable

I successfully installed kxstudio-repos_9.2.2~kxstudio1_all.deb and kxstudio-repos-gcc5_9.2.2~kxstudio1_all.deb (I think it was successful, everything is working like a charm - jack, cadence, catia, ardour, etc.), but I don't know what is "meta-all"...

Can you please tell us how you solved this with a bit more details?
Thanks a lot!

[polosson]

All right, I feel like a noob

Thanks a lot for your help!! It's working perfectly now.
Cheers !

[shiftydog]

Sorry for the late reply. This was my issue as well - I was using QAPT package installer to install the gcc5 package. It lied and called it successful. I use dpkg a lot more now.

I don't think there's any shame here. I'm not exactly a noob - I administer RHEL servers for a living. And I still got burned on this one.