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lboyer

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Registered: 2014-09-12

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[SOLVED] Guitar Pro 6 Launch?

The main website for guitarpro6 shows support for linux but its a .deb file so instead of finding some converter I searched AUR
I installed Guitar Pro 6 from
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guitar-pro/
I changed a dependancy issue in the PKGBUILD file with "binutils-multilib" to "binutils" due to depreciation , thats what the comments suggested as I was having issues with finding this "binutils-multilib". Everything seemed fine.
I used

makepkg

To make the package then installed with

#pacman -U gp6.pkg.tar.xz

It installed as it created new folders and files like it normally does like

~/guitar-pro/pkg
~/guitar-pro/opt
~/guitar-pro/usr

But I am not sure how to launch it. Usually I look at the name in the outputs during the pacman update, like for example:

Optional dependencies for guitar-pro
    gksu: for soundbanks adding

So I am asssuming that to launch its just "guitar-pro" but this is what happens

bash: guitar-pro: command not found

Quite simply, is this the correct way to start the application? Or does that mean it just did not install correctly ?

Last edited by lboyer (2014-09-17 06:02:48)

MrElg

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Registered: 2013-08-04

Posts: 49

Re: [SOLVED] Guitar Pro 6 Launch?

pacman -Ql guitar-pro

lists all files installed by package. See if you can find the binary there

it might be that it is gp6 or something like it

lboyer

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Registered: 2014-09-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Guitar Pro 6 Launch?

I'm sorry I m not sure what I am exactly looking for when you say binary would it say "binary"? I should clarify that I only installed Arch a few days ago.

Rasi

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Re: [SOLVED] Guitar Pro 6 Launch?

pacman -Ql guitar-pro | grep bin

should normally give you a list of files that can actually be RUN (if the package puts executables in a folder called bin)

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Guitar Pro 6 Launch?

I doubt looking for bin files will be successfull, iirc GP6 uses shell scripts .

do ls -l /opt/GuitarPro6 , look for files that have the x attribute set .

To execute them, you'll have to cd into that folder, then use ./foo    to start them .
alternatively you can provide the full path, like /opt/GuitaPro6/foo .

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