Bitwig

unholyeyebrows · Post by **unholyeyebrows** » Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:43 pm

Hi all

I've taken the plunge and clean installed Ubuntu 24.04 and am not trying to install the .deb as follows:

sudo apt install ./bitwig-studio-5.1.7.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'bitwig-studio' instead of './bitwig-studio-5.1.7.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 bitwig-studio : Depends: zlib1g:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libx11-xcb1:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libx11-6:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxau6:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxdmcp6:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxrender1:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libfontconfig1:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxcb-icccm4:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxcb-util1:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxcb-shm0:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxcb-xinput0:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxkbcommon0:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libxkbcommon-x11-0:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libpixman-1-0:i386 but it is not installable
                 Depends: libcairo2:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Looks like a load of 32 bit dependencies are no longer available. If anyone has any ideas how to work around this (and I can't use the flatpak as I need to use yabridge which the flatpak does not work with) then I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.

unholyeyebrows · Post by **unholyeyebrows** » Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:07 pm

Solved by enabling 32 bit libraries:

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dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ./bitwig-studio-5.1.7.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'bitwig-studio' instead of './bitwig-studio-5.1.7.deb'
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gcc-14-base:i386 libbrotli1:i386 libbsd0:i386 libbz2-1.0:i386 libc6:i386 libcairo2:i386 libexpat1:i386
  libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libgcc-s1:i386 libidn2-0:i386 libjack-jackd2-0 libmd0:i386 libpixman-1-0:i386
  libpng16-16t64:i386 libunistring5:i386 libx11-6:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb-ewmh2 libxcb-icccm4:i386
  libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxcb-util1:i386 libxcb-xinput0 libxcb-xinput0:i386 libxcb-xkb1:i386 libxcb1:i386
  libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxkbcommon-x11-0:i386 libxkbcommon0:i386 libxrender1:i386 zlib1g:i386
Suggested packages:
  lib32stdc++6 glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386 libnss-nis:i386 libnss-nisplus:i386 jackd2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bitwig-studio gcc-14-base:i386 libbrotli1:i386 libbsd0:i386 libbz2-1.0:i386 libc6:i386 libcairo2:i386 libexpat1:i386
  libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libgcc-s1:i386 libidn2-0:i386 libjack-jackd2-0 libmd0:i386 libpixman-1-0:i386
  libpng16-16t64:i386 libunistring5:i386 libx11-6:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb-ewmh2 libxcb-icccm4:i386
  libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxcb-util1:i386 libxcb-xinput0 libxcb-xinput0:i386 libxcb-xkb1:i386 libxcb1:i386
  libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxkbcommon-x11-0:i386 libxkbcommon0:i386 libxrender1:i386 zlib1g:i386
0 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 323 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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BobDog · Post by **BobDog** » Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:08 pm

The weird thing is why is it installing a 32 bit version on a 64 bit OS?

mevla · Post by **mevla** » Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:35 pm

Bitwig should perhaps clean up their dependencies.

SmajjL · Post by **SmajjL** » Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:18 am

and If we do the fresh (daily) Ubuntu.iso, going straight to the install instead of trying Ubuntu and install afterwards seems more stable, and Kubuntu could end up on a black screen after a reboot, not as ready as Ubuntu it seems.. but things could change fast since the release is so close

rlared · Post by **rlared** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 3:39 pm

Same issue here. I emailed Bitwig support asking them about it. I sent them a link to this post.

stamp · Post by **stamp** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 4:08 pm

BobDog wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:08 pm The weird thing is why is it installing a 32 bit version on a 64 bit OS?

It's not like it is installing a 32bit version. Bitwig can run 32bit plugs but it needs to install the appropriate dependecies to do so.
Seems like the devs forgot a piece of the puzzle there...

stamp · Post by **stamp** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 4:14 pm

The devs should give better indstructions on how to install packages on different distros. Installing .deb packages on arch based distros is not easy without searching the internet.

rlared · Post by **rlared** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 4:33 pm

stamp wrote: Sat Jul 20, 2024 4:14 pm The devs should give better indstructions on how to install packages on different distros. Installing .deb packages on arch based distros is not easy without searching the internet.

Isn't that why they provide a flatpak? Why would they give instructions on how to install a Deb on a non Debian based distro?

stamp · Post by **stamp** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 5:03 pm

rlared wrote: Sat Jul 20, 2024 4:33 pm
stamp wrote: Sat Jul 20, 2024 4:14 pm The devs should give better indstructions on how to install packages on different distros. Installing .deb packages on arch based distros is not easy without searching the internet.
Isn't that why they provide a flatpak? Why would they give instructions on how to install a Deb on a non Debian based distro?

Yes they do. The problem is that yabridge doesn't work with flatpak

lunardigs · Post by **lunardigs** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 6:10 pm

The thing I've done for years now, and it works well, is to unpack the .deb file, decompress the data.tar.xz file and then run the BitwigStudio binary in place.

Screenshot_20230517_234834.jpg

The only dependency issue I ever ran into was ffmpeg, but that was a long time ago.

rlared · Post by **rlared** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 10:20 pm

lunardigs wrote: Sat Jul 20, 2024 6:10 pm The thing I've done for years now, and it works well, is to unpack the .deb file, decompress the data.tar.xz file and then run the BitwigStudio binary in place.

Screenshot_20230517_234834.jpg

The only dependency issue I ever ran into was ffmpeg, but that was a long time ago.

Brilliant! Just tried and worked perfectly for me. I think this is better than installing Flatpak version.

lunardigs · Post by **lunardigs** » Mon Jul 22, 2024 8:58 pm

rlared wrote: Sat Jul 20, 2024 10:20 pm
lunardigs wrote: Sat Jul 20, 2024 6:10 pm The thing I've done for years now, and it works well, is to unpack the .deb file, decompress the data.tar.xz file and then run the BitwigStudio binary in place.

Screenshot_20230517_234834.jpg

The only dependency issue I ever ran into was ffmpeg, but that was a long time ago.
Brilliant! Just tried and worked perfectly for me. I think this is better than installing Flatpak version.

Nice ...
Yeah, I like Flatpak, it works well for most things, but Bitwig I have connected to misc. storage locations for samples, etc. and it's problematic for permissions.
With the above, I just unpack it and symlink to the launcher and it's worked fine for years this way.

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