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 my approach of the problem.
Download Guitar Pro files
Download Version 6 32-bit for Linux and standard sound banks. In my case I got two files:
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Prepare your system
- Since the software just comes 32-bit-only you have to enable multi-arch on your system:
- Unfortunately Guitar Pro depends on two libraries which are not available for Debian Jessie, but are for Debian Wheezy (libportaudio0) and Debian Squeeze-LTS (libssl0.9.8). So you have to add those lines to the end of your
/etc/apt/sources.list file:(You should able to build those libraries for your current system but this is beyond the scope of this tutorial)
- Install the necessary dependencies (32-bit versions):
Guitar Pro 64 Bit
Remove unnecessary dependencies
Guitar Pro X64 Ultimate
Guitar Pro 7 X64
The software also depends on
gksu which I didn’t manage to install, so I removed the dependency from the package because it also works without it.
Guitar Pro X64 Download
- Extract data and control information:
- Remove gksu dependency: Open the control file in an editor …
and change the line
to:
- Repack and clean up:
Install the software
- First Guitar Pro 6:
- Then the standard sound banks:
- 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.
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…