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BackReign

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Installing Studio One 6 (Digital Audio Workstation) on Arch

Hey guys,

i'm trying to intsall Studio One 6 on Arch. I'll be trying out Ardour for sure (don't really like Reaper), but since i've payed for S1 a while ago and am used to this DAW, i'd like to be able to use it on my Arch System.
I've also tried Wine, Winboat and distrobox on Cachy but wasn't reall satisfied (or it didn't work). Now switched to Arch and wanted to install S1 "natively" on Arch. An AUR Version of S17 is available, but i only purchased S16 and since Fender rebranded StudioOne you cannot install any Version of S1 you haven't purchased beforehand. So i'm stuck with the .deb package of S16.
Already downloaded debtap and converted the .deb package to a .pkg.tar.zst file. When trying to install with

sudo pacman -U studioone6-6.6.4.102451-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

there are missing dependencies returned. The first one being icu74, which i could resolve with an AUR package.
The other dependency is libjpeg 8c. Terminal output:

loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libjpeg>=8c", a dependency of "studioone6"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      studioone6

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]

when hitting y i get:

looking for conflicting packages...
there is nothing to do

when hitting n i get:
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libjpeg>=8c' required by studioone6

An AUR package of libjpeg9 is available which doesn't resolve the dependency. I've seen .rpm packages on pkgs.org for libjpeg8 but i dont really know how to install .rpm packages or if i even should. I did some research and heard of stuff like rpm extract but people aren't really fond of that and didn't really understand on how to do this with makepkg and if this is even advisable.

Therefore i'd be glad to hear your input, ideas and knowledge.

KevinCrrl

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Re: Installing Studio One 6 (Digital Audio Workstation) on Arch

Already downloaded debtap and converted the .deb package to a .pkg.tar.zst

I've seen .rpm packages on pkgs.org for libjpeg8

pkgs.org also offers .deb packages for libjpeg8 that can be converted using debtap. Although you can also consider creating a PKGBUILD to package .deb files—many packages in the AUR do this—without needing to rely on debtap: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD

but i dont really know how to install .rpm packages or if i even should.

You should not install .rpm packages on Arch; they require a package manager that can corrupt files managed by Pacman.

twelveeighty

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Re: Installing Studio One 6 (Digital Audio Workstation) on Arch

... but i only purchased S16 and since Fender rebranded StudioOne you cannot install any Version of S1 you haven't purchased beforehand.

If there ever was a reason to switch to Reaper, that would be it. I understand you don't "like" it, but yikes, that's some predatory licensing. Reaper has 12+ releases with major feature/enhancements every year, without having to buy a new license.

Anyways: libjpeg-turbo from [extra] provides libjpg=8

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Re: Installing Studio One 6 (Digital Audio Workstation) on Arch

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

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BackReign

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Re: Installing Studio One 6 (Digital Audio Workstation) on Arch

If there ever was a reason to switch to Reaper, that would be it. I understand you don't "like" it, but yikes, that's some predatory licensing. Reaper has 12+ releases with major feature/enhancements every year, without having to buy a new license.

i see, thank you for your input. I'll reconsider it. Nontheless i'd like to run the Software i own.

Anyways: libjpeg-turbo from [extra] provides libjpg=8

have this one installed, but sadly this doesn't resolve my dependency.

Scimmia

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Re: Installing Studio One 6 (Digital Audio Workstation) on Arch

So fix the dependency, debtap isn't going to get everything right.

BackReign

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Re: Installing Studio One 6 (Digital Audio Workstation) on Arch

pkgs.org also offers .deb packages for libjpeg8 that can be converted using debtap.

thanks, i got this one https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/25.10/ubuntu-ma … 4.deb.html

but i get this returned in th terminal when trying to instrall the .tar.zst:

loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libjpeg-turbo-svn>=722", a dependency of "libjpeg8"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      libjpeg8

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] y
looking for conflicting packages...
there is nothing to do

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libjpeg-turbo-svn>=722' required by libjpeg8

Can't find libjpeg-turbo-svn anywhere tho

twelveeighty

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Re: Installing Studio One 6 (Digital Audio Workstation) on Arch

Please post the full command and its output (in [ code ] tags, please). Did you install libjpeg-turbo from [extra], or from some other repo?