Hi there!
The question is about using MODEP somehow on regular desktop Linux. Is that possible? I’m trying to compile and install, but gdebi complains about missing blokas-jack package.
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Theoretically it’s possible, practically it’d take some honest effort. Another attempt was here: Building MODEP debs for x86
The source code for building MODEP debs is here:
You may be interested in Live MOD, though it’s deprecated and hasn’t been updated in a while.
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It’s just about the web ui. I don’t have issues with using all these plugins in carla, but MODEP UI is much more guitarist friendly… And I don’t want to use external devices or live cd outside my favorite DE I used to use…
Yes, this is where I started from. Both modep-common and modep where built successefully, just unable to install because of blokas-jack dependency. For sure I’d like to use regular jack I have already installed and configured.
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Look in https://github.com/BlokasLabs/patchbox-os-debs, you’ll find the blokas-jack package there. But I can’t walk you through the entire process of how to build and modify it for your needs. 
Thank you.
Installed most of things.
But modep-mod-ui throws error.
$ ./build-deb.sh
cp: cannot stat 'src/*': No such file or directory
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -b
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package modep-mod-ui
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.8.1-1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution buster
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Giedrius Trainavičius <giedrius@blokas.io>
dpkg-source --before-build .
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
E: pybuild pybuild:110: cannot detect build system, please use --system option or set PYBUILD_SYSTEM env. variable
dh_auto_clean: error: pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 3.8 returned exit code 11
make: *** [debian/rules:9: clean] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -b failed
Added to rules ‘export PYBUILD_SYSTEM=distutils’ as suggested somwhere in internet, but with no luck. Tried 2 other pybuild systems also with no luck. I’m not a python programmer myself, can you, please, point me to some solution?
You may have to install dh-python apt package. Btw, looks like you haven’t initialized the git submodules. Run these commands while inside the repository:
git submodule init
git submodule update
(--recursive argument can be added to initial git clone to do this automatically during initial cloning.)
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Trying to compile modep on Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspberry Pi OS arm64 and getting this:
(...)
#define STDC_HEADERS 1
#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
#define HAVE_TIME_H 1
#define HAVE_MATH_H 1
#define HAVE_JACK_JACK_H 1
configure: exit 1
dh_auto_configure: error: ./configure --build=aarch64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=\${prefix}/include --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-option-checking --disable-silent-rules --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=\${prefix}/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu --runstatedir=/run --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-static --enable-shared --with-lv2 --without-lash --with-lv2-dir=/usr/modep/lv2/ --prefix=/usr --without-gui returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:14: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 25
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/modep-debs/modep-lv2-calf/modep-lv2-calf-0.90.3'
make: *** [debian/rules:11: build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -b failed
The actual error is probably somewhere higher in the output.
I’m assuming that by “desktop linux”, you’re referring to any linux running on a non-ARM chip? Or are you referring to running it on a non-PatchboxOS RPi? I’m curious about the later, but I’ll start a new thread if that’s not the direction you’re going.
Whats the advantage of using modep instead of MOD from github?
There is a live usb to run mod on pc https://github.com/moddevices/mod-live-usb
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