Re: [Audacity-quality] LADSPA effects not found

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

Update to previous post.

Putting the LADSPA_PATH into ~/.bashrc works if Audacity is launched
from the Terminal, but not when launched from a shortcut. For it to
work when launching from a shortcut (or menu) but the lines in
~/.profile

Steve

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Steve the Fiddle
<ste...@gm...> wrote:
> Oops, I meant to send this to QA.
>
>
> The wiki states:
>
> "Nothing special is needed for using LADSPA plug-ins for Audacity on
> Linux. It's usually most convenient to place your LADSPA plug-ins in
> one of the following:
>
>    /usr/lib/ladspa "
>
> ( http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Ladspa_Plug-ins )
>
> This does not appear to be true. (tested on Ubuntu 10.x Debian Squeeze and LMDE)
> /usr/lib/ladspa is not searched unless either specified by the
> LADSPA_PATH environment variable, or if Audacity is installed to /usr
>
> The default location for LADSPA plug-ins on these distros is
> /usr/lib/ladspa but LADSPA_PATH is not added by default.
> The default installation path when building Audacity from source is
> /usr/local so neither of these conditions are met and LADSPA plug-ins
> are not found.
>
> I presume that Audacity is supposed to look in /usr/lib/ladspa in
> which case this is a bug, but the other possibility is that the
> documentation is wrong.
>
> The easiest workaround that I've found is add to ~/.bashrc the lines:
> LADSPA_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ladspa:/usr/lib/ladspa
> export LADSPA_PATH
>
> If the hidden file ~/.bashrc does not exist then create a new file and
> add those lines.
> Additional locations may be added such as /home/<user>/.ladspa
> paths are separated by a colon.
>
> Steve
>