[PlanetCCRMA] Plugins

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Donald Steven wrote:

>  All,
>
>  Can I collect LADSPA and LV2 plugins from various sources -- including
>  other distros -- in a folder (say on a USB backup drive) which I can
>  then copy to the appropriate /usr/lib/... or /usr/lib64/... directory in
>  the current or next version of Fedora (or any distro), or must I
>  reinstall these each time I work up a new install?
>
>  For example,
>
>  #cp /backupdrive/usr/lib64/ladspa/* /usr/lib64/ladspa

In many cases this won't be a problem. But sometimes you can get problems with 
incompatible (new) versions of shared libraries. In those cases such plugins 
will have to be re-compiled using the latest libraries on the distro you want 
to use.

It's also possible to use the ladspa, lv2, or dssi plugins while keeping them 
on you backupdrive by setting the environment variables LV2_PATH, LADSPA_PATH, 
or DSSI_PATH to point to the directories where these plugins can be found.

-- 

MT