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Made the point of Ardour support for Ubuntu clear.

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I believe this should be enough to point out what the issues are.
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who want to use Ardour and other tools for music creation and who want to use Ardour and other tools for music creation and
pro-audio work. pro-audio work.
</p> </p>
<p>
Unfortunately, Ubuntu has repeatedly caused major headaches for
people who want to use Ardour. These problems have arisen from a
combination of two basic issues:
<ul>
<li>Badly built packages of Ardour</li>
<li>Poor system configuration related to JACK, which Ardour (and
most other pro-audio tools on Linux) uses for audio and MIDI I/O.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h2>High Level Recommendations for Ubuntu Users</h2> <h2>High Level Recommendations for Ubuntu Users</h2>
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more up to date packages. more up to date packages.
<p> <p>
<h2>Problems with Ardour Packages</h2> <h2>Installing Ardour</h2>
There may be unintended differences, and even bugs in Ubuntu native
<dl> packages, as a result of a different building method. For this reason,
<dt>What is the problem?</dt> Ardour developers highly recommend you to install the official
<dd>
<p>
It is not possible to know whether the current package of Ardour
released by Ubuntu has been correctly built or not. Ubuntu has a
history of making packaging errors that lead to crashes, missing
functionality and odd behaviour that is not present in the
ready-to-run version of the program that you can get from <a ready-to-run version of the program that you can get from <a
href="http://ardour.org/download">ardour.org</a> (or in the packages href="http://ardour.org/download">ardour.org</a>, as Ubuntu native
released by other distributions) packages are not supported in official Ardour forums or other
</p> support channels.
<dt>Symptoms</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Ardour starts up and basically runs, but you encounter subtle
problems (for example, with plugin GUIs or with export, or with the
use of certain specific plugins), or are missing functionality, or
run into crashes.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>How to Fix</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Download the ready-to-run version
from <a href="http://ardour.org/download">ardour.org</a>. Ardour's
lead developer (and many of the most active members of our user
community) will not provide support for, and will not investigate
bugs reported for, Ubuntu's own packages of Ardour. The ardour.org
packages install along side your distribution versions, and do not
interfere or interact in anyway other than sharing your own personal
Ardour settings and configuration choices.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>Problems with the interaction between PulseAudio and JACK</h2> <h2>Problems with the interaction between PulseAudio and JACK</h2>