jackaudio
How to find Jack (after installation)
I'm mostly a Windows user although I dip into Linux very occasionally. I installed Mixbus under Zorin Linux and it works fine with the ALSA and Pulseaudio backends - but I wanted to try Jack, so I issued this command in a terminal:-
sudo apt-get install jack
Everything looked okay and when I start Mixbus it now offers me Jack in addition to the others - but when I try to load a session with Jack, Mixbus tells me it couldn't start the Jack engine. Is there some folder I should check to see if Jack got properly installed? Or have I maybe over-simplified things? Should I have done something extra, in addition to the above command?
@johne53 this issue tracker is for development of jack2. The issue template clearly states that (and you removed it) to not overburden the people maintaining this project. This issue tracker is not a support desk for downstream operating systems such as Zorin Linux. If you have issues with it, please refer to its help page and/or refer to the jackaudio community information.
Okay sorry... When I posted here it gave me the option to report Bugs, add Feature Requests or start a Blank Issue. I assumed a Blank Issue was for asking questions etc.
Oh I see, they still offer the blank issue below the templated ones. I can see how that can lead to confusion :confused: Maybe the new issue forms allow to improve this.
So in a way it's good you opened this ticket :slightly_smiling_face: Maybe it helps in making this more clear (it's not really easy in the confines of what github offers).
One last question if I may, then I'll leave you alone... is there some command I can run from a terminal so that Jack will show me its version number? I'm just wondering if apt-get managed to install some really old version of Jack.
Thanks dvzrv. That told me that jackd wasn't installed so I needed to modify my installation by adding a 'd' at the end - i.e.
sudo apt-get install jackd
jackd is is now starting but it's giving me an error here about real-time scheduling. Is there a proper forum I can use to ask questions not related to feature requests and bugs? i.e. a forum for questions about about installing and using Jack?