[SOLVED] Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

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[SOLVED] Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby globetrotterdk » Jul 2nd, '20, 17:25

I am giving Mageia a try after a very long absence. Is anyone using Bitwig Studio on Mageia? I know of a script circulating on Fedora that can install Bitwig Studio and was wondering if anyone had tried to get Bitwig installed on Mageia...

I am running Mageia KDE 7.1.
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Re: Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby doktor5000 » Jul 2nd, '20, 18:13

Why don't you grab that script and adapt it to Mageia? It'll probably not be that much different ...
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Re: Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby globetrotterdk » Jul 2nd, '20, 20:09

I’ll give it a try, but my problem as a new user is exactly that I haven’t got a clue as to how many practical differences there are between Mageia and Fedora.
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Re: Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby doktor5000 » Jul 2nd, '20, 20:57

Well, you could post a link to the script you referred to, so others may be able to explain it to you.
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Re: Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby globetrotterdk » Jul 3rd, '20, 06:30

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Re: Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby doktor5000 » Jul 3rd, '20, 17:01

You should be fine installing it like this, although you need a 64bit system, as this is only available as x86_64 package, from what I can tell

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urpmi lib64bsd0 lib64bz2_1 dpkg wget


Then download the linux package from the homepage, which is currently
https://downloads.bitwig.com/stable/3.2.4/bitwig-studio-3.2.4.deb

Then unpack bitwig as root
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dpkg-deb -xv bitwig-studio-3.2.4.deb /


Then try to run it as regular user from the application menu or from a terminal as
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/opt/bitwig-studio/bitwig-studio
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Re: Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby globetrotterdk » Jul 3rd, '20, 18:48

Wow, thanks. I will try this over the weekend.
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Re: Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby globetrotterdk » Jul 5th, '20, 21:18

So far, Bitwig appears to work as advertised. There are few things that I need to sort out with my instrument sources, but none of that appears at this point to be anything related to installing Bitwig on Mageia. Should that change, I will post a new thread. Thanks again for the help.
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Re: Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby isadora » Jul 6th, '20, 07:55

Would you please mark this topic [SOLVED]?
You can do so by editing the title/subject of the first message in the topic.
Place [SOLVED] in front of subject/title.

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Re: [SOLVED] Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby fhenryco » Jun 11th, '22, 10:31

I want to try this on mageia 8 but isn't it dangerous to install deb packages on a rpm system ?
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Re: [SOLVED] Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby Germ » Jun 11th, '22, 13:43

You should start a new thread if you want to discuss the merits of debs on a rpm system.
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Re: [SOLVED] Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby morgano » Jun 11th, '22, 15:02

I have not tried it, but see it is available as flatpak, so:

Install and configure flatpak
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Flatpak

then issue as normal user
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flatpak install bitwig
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Re: [SOLVED] Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby fhenryco » Jun 11th, '22, 15:46

Sorry, i thought my question was in perfect continuity with the initial thread. thank you for your comments.

With flatpak as i learned from other forum threads, jack compatibility is lost, and i need jack.

So i assumed that may be using alien to turn the deb into an rpm would be less dangerous than dpkg-deb (no idea if this is true true ... ) and this is what i did and bitwig seems to work so far...
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Re: [SOLVED] Bitwig Studio on Mageia 7.1?

Postby benmc » Jun 11th, '22, 23:36

fhenryco wrote:I want to try this on mageia 8 but isn't it dangerous to install deb packages on a rpm system ?


It is up to the user to determine the level of risk.

The minimum to be aware of, is, that the user is responsible for maintaining the package on their system- they need to regularly check for updates / upgrades and security issues.
This includes if a required Mageia package for the software is updated in the normal routine, does it break the software.

caveat:
The .deb is obviously not supported by Mageia, it has not been through QA and is not maintained / curated by Mageia developers, so there is a security risk.
In saying that, if the software provider is *reputable*, they will be ensuring that the software that they provide should be malware free.
Where software is used in a dedicated /specific sphere, the community of users is generally quite tight knit, so should there be an issue with the software, it is quickly reported amongst the users and with feedback to the developer / provider.
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