# Required Packages

**URL:** <https://forum.zrythm.org/t/required-packages/93>\
**Category:** GNU/Linux\
**Tags:** release\
**Created:** [February 16, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/required-packages/93 "2024-02-16T05:24:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Scovi](https://forum.zrythm.org/user_avatar/forum.zrythm.org/scovi/32/64_2.png) [@Scovi](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/Scovi)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/required-packages/93/1 "2024-02-16T05:24:25Z")

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Intro:  
Hi, Alex! (Seeing as you seem to be responding to everyone yourself I thought I might as well address you personally.) I was super impressed with the video’s showcasing zrythm that I could find on youtube and wanted to give it a try.

Problem:  
I am having some dependency issues when trying to install the AUR packages zrythm & zrythm-git. The installation issue arises with the requirement of -git packages.

zrythm  
Depends: gtk4-git (and zix)

Paru refuses to replace gtk4 with gtk4-git as it will break many dependencies.  
(As I have a few applications built on gtk4 this makes sense)

zrythm-git  
Depends: zix-git (and gtk4)

Paru refuses to replace zix with zix-git as sord depends on zix.  
lilv depends on sord and pipewire-audio depends on lilv.

Conclusion:  
I am an amateur programmer and still relatively new to linux so please bear with my idiocy. I understand that the solution to this may be some simple linux-fu that I should know. So I tried to scour the internet for solutions before posting my question here. Unfortunately, after a day I have turned up empty handed.

I would like to try and get zrythm-git working as this looks like a project I could have a lot of passion for and would be happy to contribute in any way a broke college student can.

Many thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![alex](https://forum.zrythm.org/user_avatar/forum.zrythm.org/alex/32/19_2.png) [@alex](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/alex)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/required-packages/93/2 "2024-02-16T12:30:12Z")

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The AUR package is packaged by the community and probably has many issues.

zix-git is not really needed. Latest zix is fine. Alternatively you can use the subproject that zrythm provides with `-Dforce_fallback_for=zix`

Zrythm however depends on relatively new GTK4 and libadwaita development releases (unstable so they are not packaged in distros). Since you don’t want them to clash with the system gtk4/libadwaita, the best way to handle this is to install Zrythm in a custom prefix, and install all the custom libraries it needs there (something like `--prefix=/opt/zrythm-git` and `-Dforce_fallback_for=gtk4,libadwaita`). This is similar to what I use for development. Here is my configuration command for reference (you probably don’t need most of those options):

```auto
meson setup build --pkg-config-path=/home/alex/local/lib/pkgconfig -Dprefix=~/local -Db_lto=false -Dnative_build=true -Dstrict_flags=true -Ddebug=true -Doptimization=0 -Dcarla=enabled -Dtests=true -Dopus=true -Dguile_snarf_docs_path= -Dguile=enabled -Dextra_debug_info=true -Dstatic_deps=false -Dcheck_updates=true -Dvalgrind=enabled -Drtaudio=enabled -Drtmidi=enabled -Dforce_fallback_for=gtk4,libadwaita,libpanel,xxhash,libcyaml,pangoft2,json-glib,gtksourceview5,rtmidi,rtaudio,zstd,pcre,pcre2,libsndfile,libsoxr,yyjson

```

Alternatively I’m looking into making it possible to build Zrythm as a Flatpak from source using GNOME Builder, that should be easier to build because you don’t need to care about the dependencies.