{"id":33313,"date":"2021-01-29T15:43:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33313"},"modified":"2021-01-29T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:43:22","slug":"install-ardour-6-5-ppa-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/install-ardour-6-5-ppa-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Ardour Audio Workstation 6.5 via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ardour-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ardour-icon.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ardour-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This simple tutorial shows how to install the free audio workstation Ardour 6.5 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and \/ or Linux Mint 20.x via PPA.<\/p>\n<p>Ardour 6.5 was released with support for plugins in Steinberg\u2019s VST3 format, on Linux, Windows and macOS. As usual, there\u2019s various bug fixes and improvements ranging from the minor to the extremely useful.<\/p>\n<p>The new release has been made into the main repositories for next Ubuntu 21.04. For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntustudio-ppa\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ardour-backports\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">backport PPA<\/a> by Ubuntu Studio packaging team now maintains the package.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ardour6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ardour6-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open terminal either from system application launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntustudio-ppa\/ardour-backports<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ardour-backports-ppa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> After adding the PPA and refreshing package cache (should be done automatically), run command to install the multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ardour<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/apt-ardour.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If everything&#8217;s done successfully, launch the software from system app menu and enjoy!<\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall Ardour 6:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the software package, simply run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --auto-remove ardour<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the Ubuntu PPA, open <i>Software &#038; Updates<\/i> and go to <i>Other Software<\/i> tab. Then remove the relevant repository line.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/remove-ardour-backports-repo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33318\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows how to install the free audio workstation Ardour 6.5 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and \/ or Linux Mint 20.x via PPA. Ardour 6.5 was released with support for plugins in Steinberg\u2019s VST3 format, on Linux, Windows and macOS. As usual, there\u2019s various bug fixes and improvements ranging from the minor to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2019],"class_list":["post-33313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-audio-workstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}