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Old 09-10-2019, 01:24 PM   #41
baconpaul
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Heya.

So as to installing yourself:

For the VST2 you need to scan the .so; for the LV2 and VST3 they are bundles so you need to position the bundle directory, not the so, in your path. Also the system requires the assets which the deb places in /usr/share to either be in /usr/share or ~/.share

The synth will make ~/Documents/Surge itself (if you have a ~/Documents directory) or ~/.Surge itself (if you don't) on startup. Its really just the share assets that need to be there.

The VST3 and 2 will start without the share but will immediately display an error message and basically not be functional.

If you unpack the deb you can see the filesystem layout we want. If you check out the code, look at SurgeStorage.cpp in the #if LINUX block - you can see the directories we look for.

Hope that helps!
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