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This might appear as a really stupid question, but I can't figure it out myself.

I cannot install Carla on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64 bit). They offer 3 ways to install Carla, and none is working yet for me.

  1. Pressing Debian/Ubuntu on their downloadpage reports:

    could not find carla-git.

    BTW: kxstudio repo is installed.

  2. Precompiled binary reports an error after chmod +x Carla && chmod +x CarlaConfig :

    $ ./Carla
Carla: loadlocale.c:130: _nl_intern_locale_data:
  Assertion `cnt < (sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_TIME) / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_TIME[0]))' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

  3. Building from source is installable. But when I try to open it, nothing appears.

I should maybe stick to one solution, but I'm really confused right now which path to take.

Edit 2: I just did a new clean installation of the kxstudio repo. Here is my output of (extracted the relevant part)

sudo apt update


Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-debian/ubuntus/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

then trying to install carla:

sudo apt install carla-git
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package carla-git
Sir hennihau
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3 Answers3

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Try first:

sudo apt update

and then

sudo apt install carla-git
fernandezr
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I have successfully installed Carla on Ubuntu 18.04. Here's how to do it:

  1. go to http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Repositories and install the kxstudio-repos.deb package. You need KXStudio repository for Carla.
  2. NOW you can go to http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla and click on the Debian/Ubuntu (via KXStudio repositories) link to install Carla.

If you are trying to get Windows VST files to work in Ubuntu, I found this video helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiaWozQ69eE

MickTravels
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I have run into issues with the kxstudio repository in the past, especially with the bundled version of Carla. Therefore I now download the latest version of the actual release files from their Github repository here:

https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/releases

I find that the latest release at the time I am writing this (Carla_2.0-RC2-linux64.tar.xz) is working very well on both standard Ubuntu 18.04, as well as Ubuntu Studio 18.04. Furthermore, I use it successfully to load Windows-based VST files with the standard version of Wine that comes with 18.04 (wine-3.0).

To prove my version of Ubuntu:

 $ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS"

And here is the output of "./Carla" if I start it on the commandline:

$ ./Carla
Carla self-contained executable 1.9.11 (2.0-RC1), based on UnZipSFX.
Launching: '/tmp/carla/carla'
LRDF Support disabled for static build (LADSPA-RDF will be disabled)
Carla 1.9.12 (2.0-RC2) started, status:
  Python version: 3.2.3
  Qt version:     4.8.7
  PyQt version:   4.9.1
  Binary dir:     /tmp/carla
  Resources dir:  /tmp/carla/resources
libjack.so.0 loaded sucessfully!
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jackdmp 1.9.12
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2016 Grame.
Copyright 2016-2017 Filipe Coelho.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:PCH|hw:PCH|512|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 512 frames (11.6 ms), buffer = 2 periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for playback

I hope that this helps!

Jan Henkins
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