Footswitch2 Equaliser Files

Manjaro (Arch) and Fedora linux installation notes

These notes are left slightly imprecise because as a user of Arch Linux, you
are assumed to know what you are doing on the command line

The standard package is a .deb file for Ubuntu/Mint Debian type Linux

Tested on Manjaro 20 and Fedora 34 with pulseaudio and ladspa plugins loaded

A tar archive is available to install fs2-equaliser manually as follows.

copy the fs2-equaliser_x.x.x_arch.tar.gz file to a directory other than / (root)

Extract contents

This will create a usr directory
copy the contents of this directory
the /usr directory in your root directory (ensure you don't overwrite anything)

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# Create a symbolic link in /usr/bin for the equalizer executable
ln -s -f /usr/share/fs2-equaliser/fs2_equaliser.py /usr/bin/fs2_equaliser

( -s a symbolic link | -f force i.e. overwrite any existing fs2_equaliser in /usr/bin )
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Install the following software:

****(Ensure that you have enabled AUR for pamac)****

Use pamac the gui pacman to install most of them, it's quicker that using pacman or pip3

For Fedora 34 use dnf to install them:

    - appmenu-gtk-module

    For audio manipulation/effects you'll need the ladspa plugins
    - ladspa
    - swh-plugins
    - cmt (ladspa)
    - ladspa-bs2b
    - vlevel-git

    Install python libraries:
    pip3 install wxPython (this takes an age as it will compile it - use pamac instead)


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Pulseaudio

1.  Ensure the /etc/libao.conf defaults to pulseaudio

    default_driver=pulse

    [or edit or create a local .libao (note the dot as the first character) file in your
    home directory (this will take precedence over the /etc/libao.conf file which is system wide)]


2.  Ensure the /etc/pulse/default.pa contains a switch on connect module

    load-module module-switch-on-connect ignore_virtual=no

    [/etc/pulse/default.pa also has a local override option in your home directory
    namely $HOME/.config/pulse/default.pa]

3.  Ensure that the pulseaudio daemon is enabled

    systemctl --user enable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket


Start the equaliser by issuing the command fs2_equaliser on the command line. It should set the environment for you.

Troubleshooting details are in the pdf manual supplied.

Tested and run on Manjaro 20  Fedora 34 in a Virtual machine using Virtualbox

To add the icon to the desktop, simply copy /usr/share/fs2-equaliser/fs2_equaliser.desktop to your Desktop.