Installing Ardour

[foxteria]

Greetings, I'm a newbie here, and I have a basic question.
I've installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a computer and it's working fine. What is the easiest way to put Ardour on that computer. (It's not on line)
Thanks

[Stochastic]

I'd say the best way would be to hook it up online for a second (if that's possible) and (though you may need to add online repositories first) do: sudo apt-get install ardour

There is also the option of downloading the Ubuntu Studio DVD and using it as a repository (can be selected through synaptic). Once you've done that, then just do that above command.

But if you can't do either of those, then you're going to face a bit more of a challenge. You will need to get online to download Ardour (try to find a .deb file) and all it's dependencies. Now that last bit is the tricky part. See, Ardour can't even install properly without the adequate libraries and audio drivers installed first. For a complete listing, take a look at this page (though if you've found a .deb file then you can skip the 'Required Tools' section) http://www.ardour.org/building

now if you're not overwhelmed yet, then you're not a true newbie;)

[Drunky]

Be sure JACK is working also.

[Stochastic]

JACK is one of the dependencies of ardour. If you're installing from any repo (online or UbieStudioDVD) then apt-get will take care of installing JACK.

[foxteria]

Thanks folks, I'm up and running.