Finding Jack 0.109

Thanks Quentin. I eventually solved the problem by installing from a tarball - although even that didn't go smoothly.... :-( Along the way I discovered that sudo dpkg -i --force-all *.deb was the most successful of the dpkg install strategies - although according to Synaptic, jackd and libjack0_100 were both broken at the end of it. Anyway, I've finally got everything up to 0.109.2-5 with no broken packages and to be honest, I think I'll be leaving it like that for a while!!

It has to be the right force flag (and I can't remember off hand) run sudo dpkg force-help to get the options...

Thanks Quentin. Sorry for being a dummy but where do I apply that flag? I tried this:- sudo dpkg -i -f libjack0_0.109.2-5_i386.deb but it gave me this output:- dpkg: conflicting actions -f (--field) and -i (--install)

You could use the -f force flag to install the libjack first, and follow by installing jack.

Hi Quentin, The instructions for installing jack (here):- http://www.64studio.com/ardour_2.5#comment-2634 work fine until it gets to the stage of doing "sudo dpkg -i *.deb". At this point, the installation fails to install jackd (because libjack0 needs to be >=0.109.2-5 and I currently have 0.103.0-6 installed). However if I try to install libjack0 first, that also fails (saying that jackd is 0.103.0-6 when it needs to be 0.109.2-5). Any ideas about how I should solve this circular dependency?

Thanks Quentin. It's a complicated story but I need to install 0.109 so that I can check whether a problem (in Ardour) has anything to do with my Jack version. However - tell me if this (unrelated) problam makes any sense to you:- According to Synaptic, both my laptop amd my desktop machines are running the same version (0.57.11.1+b1). Furthermoe, if I open Synaptic and select Help-->About, both versions tell me that I'm running 0.57.8. However, if I select Settings->Repositories I see two entirely different dialog boxes. The one on my laptop looks like a much older version of the one on my desktop m/c. And although it does allow me to add & remove repositories, it's a multi-tabbed dialog whose title says "System Preferences". The repository settings are on a tab called "Installation Media". On my desktop m/c I just have a conventional dialog box called "Repositories" How can that be, if they're the same version??? In both cases, the ACTUAL Preferences dialog is displayed by selecting Settings->Preferences and seems to be identical on both systems. [Edit...] More woes.... :-( I followed those instructions for installing jackd 0.109. I created the jackd_109 directory and did the two "sudo apt-get" lines. Then (just to check that I now had the ".deb" files) I typed "dir *.deb" However, the resulting list seems to indicate that it's built jackd-0.103 and libjack0-0.103 (both of which I already have). Any idea what might have gone wrong? [Edit2...] Sorry, I'd mistyped one of the repositories. Having corrected that, it seems to have built the right version!

0.109 is in lenny, so you could backport it from there... Why would you want to though... 0.109 was not a very stable version... I would recommend using the jack2 (1.8 or higher) version for stability. To backport, there is an easy to follow instruction on the Ardour 2.5 / 2.7 compile thread. You basically use dpkg to compile the package into .deb from the source repositories you enabled, and I would recommend using the 64studio hardy-backports repository for the source code. Jack2 runs without problems on single core systems as well.