TOPIC: Polyphone & Ubuntu Studio 20.04?

My PPA has a polyphone package for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It’s a backport (20.04 is ooooooold…) of the one I just uploaded to Debian. It’s the only legal Polyphone binary distribution in existence and currently excludes SF3 support.

Testing feedback is, of course, welcome.

I've just compiled Polyphone 2.2.0 from an Ubuntu Studio 20.04 desktop by using this script. The compilation took about 10 minutes. I don't have a super powerful computer, so it may be a bit faster for you.

The script:

1. installs dependencies,
2. clones (downloads) the source code,
3. compiles it.

You'll see a lot of ugly messages during the compilation. It's normal. When it's done, it generates a polyphone binary in the polyphone/sources/bin folder.

The benefits of a proper Debian package are many, though. No development libraries cluttering your system, clean installation and uninstallation, better integration into the system, and legal review.

Is your package vanilla 2.2 or have you incorporated some of the fixes from master?

I’ve incorporated fixes from master: as 2.2 wouldn’t even build, I packaged a snapshot of master (plus that french guy’s PRs). I’ll update that as more bugfixes arrive.

Thanks! Your Polyphone package works perfectly here on KDE neon 20.04. Now I don't need to compile it manually anymore