LMMS is a free music studio software, in style of FL Studio. It's not very finished yet, but it sure is nice one to play with. And there aren't too many software studios available for Linux..
Edit: LMMS can now be found from Backports, so you'll only need to use this howto if you don't want to enable Backports repository.
Now, there are debian packages available, but they have some dependencies that cause problems with installing to Ubuntu, so it's not going to be as simple as just downloading and installing. Anyway, I managed to do get LMMS running without messing my Ubuntu (If installing some debian packages doesn't count), so if you wish to give it a try here are the steps needed:
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1. Go to http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ and download debian packages lmms_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_i386.deb and lmms-common_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_all.deb to your desktop.
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2. Now, here comes the complicated part: LMMS needs package libqt3c102mt, but Ubuntu doesn't have a package with that name. Instead we have one called libqt3-mt which does do the job, we only have to edit the lmms package to change it's dependencies..
We'll make a new directory to work in:
Code:
cd ~/Desktop
mkdir lmms
cd lmms
Then unpack the .deb to a new directory inside our current directory:
Code:
dpkg-deb -x ~/Desktop/lmms_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_i386.deb lmms_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_i386
dpkg-deb -e ~/Desktop/lmms_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_i386.deb lmms_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_i386/DEBIAN
Then we'll run
Code:
gedit ~/Desktop/lmms/lmms_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_i386/DEBIAN/control
and change 'libqt3c102-mt' to 'libqt3-mt' & save the file. Of course you can use whatever text editor you like to do this
Next do
Code:
dpkg-deb -b ./lmms_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_i386
to create a new .deb package in ~/Desktop/lmms/
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3. Then we'll install some dependencies:
Code:
sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt libsamplerate0 libsdl-sound1.2
These worked for me, but if you need any other packages please tell me and I'll add those here.
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4. Finaly we are ready to install LMMS:
Code:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/lmms-common_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i lmms_0.0.9+0.1.0rc1-1_i386.deb
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5. run to test that it works. If it doesn't, please don't blame me
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6. If it does work, we'll add it to menu:
Code:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/lmms.desktop
and copy following text there and save.
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=LMMS
Comment=Linux MultiMedia Studio
Exec=lmms
Icon=/usr/share/lmms/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;AudioVideo;
That's it. Now you are ready to write your hit song. While doing that you should save after any change as LMMS isn't very stable yet and you don't want to lose your masterpiece when LMMS crashes..
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