Carla/INSTALL.md

--- INSTALL for Carla ---

To install Carla, simply run as usual:
$ make
$ [sudo] make install

You can run it without installing, by using instead:
$ make
$ python3 source/carla.py

Packagers can make use of the ‘PREFIX’ and ‘DESTDIR’ variable during install, like this:
$ make install PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=./test-dir

===== BUILD DEPENDENCIES =====

The required build dependencies are: (devel packages of these)

• JACK
• liblo
• Qt4
• PyQt4
• OpenGL

Optional but recommended:

• FluidSynth
• LinuxSampler

Optional for extended LV2 UIs support:

• Gtk2
• Gtk3
• Suil

Optional for native zynaddsubfx plugin:

• fftw3
• mxml

On Debian and Ubuntu, use these commands to install all dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install libjack-dev liblo-dev libqt4-dev libfluidsynth-dev qt4-dev-tools
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libsuil-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libfftw3-dev libmxml-dev
$ sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt4 pyqt4-dev-tools

NOTE: linuxsampler is not packaged in either Debian or Ubuntu, but it's available in KXStudio.

To run Carla-Control, you'll additionally need:

• python3-liblo

Optional but recommended:

• python3-rdflib (for LADSPA-RDF support)

The python version used and tested is python3.2. Older versions won't work!
After install, Carla will still work on distros with python2 as default, without any additional work.