
Many musicians know that Arobas Music recently released a new version of Guitar Pro 6 tablature editor. The company also promised to release a linux version. In general, they fulfilled their promise, but it is available only for x86 systems as a deb package. On the x64 system, the program has not yet been launched, or there have been no such attempts at all.
I managed to get it to work on the x64 system.
Installation for Linux using DEB packages (Ubuntu, Debian)
1 . Download the free demo-version of GuitarPro 6 from the
office. the site2. We carry out the forced installation of the package:
sudo dpkg -i --force-all ////GuitarPro6Demo-rev7894.deb
3. Download the necessary x64-library. We need a
getlibs package
4. Install the package.
5. Install the libportaudio.so.2 library. Use for this getlibs:
getlibs -l libportaudio.so.2
The console will offer to install the library libportaudio2, click Y.
6. Launch Guitar Pro 6.
Installation for Linux using RPM packages (Mandriva, Fedora, RedHat)
1. Get from the rpm package deb. For this we need an Alien package:
urpmi alien
Maybe you do not have rpm-build installed:
urpmi rpm-build
2. Convert the package:
alien -r ////GuitarPro6Demo-rev7894.deb
3. Run GuitarPro6Demo-rev7894.rpm and install if you have x86 system, if you have x64:
rpm --force GuitarPro6Demo-rev7894.rpm
4. Then everything goes as in Debian. If you do not find the rpm getlibs, then convert the deb file as in step 1.
PS On Linux, it is impossible to grunt, so we buy a license, or be content with a demo version.