{"id":53,"date":"2015-07-16T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/?p=53"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:48:10","slug":"install-guitar-pro-debian-8-64bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/install-guitar-pro-debian-8-64bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Guitar Pro 6 on Debian Jessie 64-bit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to use Arobas Music’s
\nGuitar Pro 6<\/strong> on Debian Jessie 64-bit as they also provide a Linux version. However it can be rather difficult to install the software under certain circumstances for a number of reasons, so I decided to share my approach of the problem.<\/p>\n

Download Guitar Pro files<\/h2>\n

\tDownload Version 6 32-bit for Linux and standard sound banks. In my case I got two files:<\/p>\n

gp6-full-linux-r11621.deb\r\nBanks-r370.gpbank\r\n<\/pre>\n
Prepare your system<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Since the software just comes 32-bit-only you have to enable multi-arch<\/a> on your system:\n
    sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Unfortunately Guitar Pro depends on two libraries which are not available for Debian Jessie, but are for Debian Wheezy (libportaudio0<\/em>) and Debian Squeeze-LTS (libssl0.9.8<\/em>). So you have to add those lines to the end of your
    \n\t\t\/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/em> file:<\/p>\n
    # necessary for guitar pro 6 dependency libssl0.9.8\t\r\ndeb [arch=i386] http:\/\/ftp.debian.org\/debian squeeze-lts main\t \t \r\n\r\n# necessary for guitar pro 6 dependency libportaudio0\t \r\ndeb [arch=i386] http:\/\/ftp.debian.org\/debian wheezy main<\/pre>\n
    (You should able to build those libraries for your current system but this is beyond the scope of this tutorial)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Install the necessary dependencies (32-bit versions):\n
    sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libasound2:i386 libc6:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 libportaudio0:i386 libportaudio2:i386 libssl0.9.8:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libpulse0:i386 libxrender1:i386 libglib2.0-0:i386 libpng12-0:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Remove unnecessary dependencies<\/h2>\n
    \tThe software also depends on
    \n\t\tgksu<\/em> which I didn’t manage to install, so I removed the dependency from the package because it also works without it.<\/p>\n
      \n
    1. Extract data and control information:\n
      dpkg-deb -x gp6-full-linux-r11621.deb gp6-full-linux-r11621\r\ndpkg-deb --control gp6-full-linux-r11621.deb gp6-full-linux-r11621\/DEBIAN<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    2. Remove gksu dependency: Open the control file in an editor …\n
      nano gp6-full-linux-r11621\/DEBIAN\/control<\/pre>\n
      \t\t\t\tand change the line<\/p>\n
      Depends: gksu, libasound2, ...\r\n<\/pre>\n
      \t\t\t\tto:<\/p>\n
      Depends: libasound2, ...\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    3. Repack and clean up:\n
      dpkg -b gp6-full-linux-r11621 gp6-full-linux-r11621-modified.deb\r\nrm gp6-full-linux-r11621.deb gp6-full-linux-r11621\/ -rf<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      Install the software<\/h2>\n
        \n
      1. First Guitar Pro 6:\n
        sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture gp6-full-linux-r11621-modified.deb<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
      2. Then the standard sound banks:\n
        \/opt\/GuitarPro6\/GPBankInstaller Banks-r370.gpbank \/opt\/GuitarPro6<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
      3. You should be able to run Guitar Pro 6 now. After first start you’ll probably see the activation-dialogue, where you have to enter your licensing information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        Let me know if this tutorial was able to help you or if you experienced difficulties on the way. Also if you can provide some insight why I could not install gksu in 32-bit version, feel free to leave a comment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
        I wanted to use Arobas Music’s Guitar Pro 6 on Debian Jessie 64-bit as they also provide a Linux version. However it can be rather difficult to install the software under certain circumstances for a number of reasons, so I decided to share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[23,3,22,2],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorial","tag-64-bit","tag-debian","tag-guitar-pro","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmoexdev.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}