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I want to install Reaper on Ubuntu 22.10. The requirements for linux are as follows:

  • libc6, libstdc++ for gcc 4.x or later
  • libgdk-3 (you can also target headless or libgdk-2 if you build your own libSwell from WDL)
  • ALSA

I want to know if Ubuntu 22.10 already comes with these packages installed or not. If not, how do I install them?

Thanks!

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By default, Ubuntu versions do not come with the compiler tools installed for C and C++ and such. That's because it's not a small request to get all the build libraries installed - it takes up a not insignificant portion of space on disk.

To get the GCC and standard libs, that's a single task - in command line run:

sudo apt install build-essential

This installs GCC, G++, all the standard C libs, etc.

GDK is actually part of the GTK libraries - it's a low level library but it's part of the GTK libraries. You install libgdk with this:

sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev

Now, ALSA may be harder to get working. I'm not 100% fluent in the ALSA libraries, but in theory running sudo apt install libasound2-dev should get you the ALSA libraries you need.

Once you're done, follow whatever README instructions exist for compiling the software you want to compile.

Thomas Ward
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