Here we will install a LibraZiK-3 Audio Studio either on an empty hard disk ¹⁾ or add it to an already installed Debian Buster.

If you already have a Debian Buster installed, you can jump directly to this paragraph.

Otherwise, please continue reading and we will install it.

You'll need:

1. get a Debian installation image (Buster version)
2. burn it on a CD, DVD or write it on a USB key
3. then, we're going to install a basic Debian system
4. then, we'll install the LibraZiK-3 environment
5. and then we'll go in and make the final setups

These different steps are described below.

We will use a “Debian Internet Installation” base. So you will need an active internet connection during the actual installation.

One of the advantages of this method is that your system will be completely up to date at the time of installation because the software will be downloaded in its most recent versions from the Debian repositories.

So we will retrieve an ISO image of the installation from the internet (called “netinst”). This image contains everything you need to install debian on 64-bit or 32-bit systems. It can be found here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/10.11.0/multi-arch/iso-cd/ and has a name like: debian-10.X.Y-amd64-i386-netinst.iso (about 616 MB).

Burn this ISO image to a CD or DVD using your usual software.

To write this image on a USB key, follow these few steps:

1. In a terminal, run the command : watch "dmesg | tail" (as administrator account).
2. Then plug your USB key on your computer, you will see the writings on your terminal changing. It's your linux® kernel which is telling you that it discovers a new device and what it does with it.
3. Find out where your USB key is located. For example : sdb: sdb1.
4. Then, in another terminal tab (do: Terminal menu → Open a tab ), the magic command to write the ISO on the USB key and make it a bootable key is: cp /path/to/your/file.iso /dev/sdX (as administrator account) by replacing the “X” of /dev/sdX by the letter corresponding to the location of your USB key (in the example above: /dev/sdb)
5. Once the copy is made and when the terminal gives you the hand back, run the command sync which ensures that everything is written and synchronized, and that there is nothing more being written to the key.
6. Unmount your key cleanly.
7. Close the terminal window.
8. Your flash drive is ready.

• Start the computer with the CD or DVD in the drive, or with the USB key plugged into your machine.

• Choose :
  • “Graphical Install” for a 64-bit system,
  • “32-bit install options” then “Graphical install (32-bit)” for a 32-bit system.

• Choose :
  • “What you need - What you need”
  • “The country your in”
  • “The keyboard type you're using”
• Network configuration if needed
• Choose the machine name
• Choose the domain name
• Choose a password for the administrator account
• Choose the user account name
• Choose the user account ID
• Choose the user account password
• Choose “Assisted - use the whole disk”
• Select the hard drive on which your system will be installed
• Choose “All in one partition (recommended for beginners)”
• Select “Finish partitioning and apply changes”
• Select “YES”

• Choose a mirror : choose “the country you're in” then, advice is to choose either :
  • “deb.debian.org” which selects the fastest mirror to respond (preferred choice if possible),
  • a mirror geographically close to you.
• proxy http: → leave it blank, unless you're behind a proxy

• Statistical study, choose “YES”
• Choose the MATE desktop environment in addition to the other pre-selected items

• Install GRUB on the boot sector: “YES”
• Choose the hard disk on which to install GRUB
• Remove the support ²⁾, then “CONTINUE”.

…the computer will reboot.

We will see here how to integrate the LibraZiK-3 audio studio to an already installed Debian Buster. You will need a Debian Buster system (64 or 32 bits) already installed with the MATE desktop environment, and a working internet connection.

Here, we will install the LibraZiK-3 environment before we can enter it.

• Login with your user account
• Menu → System → Administration → Synaptic package manager
  • Install the gdebi package ³⁾
  • Once the software is installed, close Synaptic
• Menu → Applications → Internet → Firefox ESR
  • go to http://download.tuxfamily.org/librazik/pasapas/
  • right-click on the packages files for librazik-keyring and librazik-apt → “Save link target as…”
  • save them in your “Desktop/”
  • close Firefox ESR
• Once downloaded, install the librazik-keyring package by right-clicking on it then “Open with GDebi Package Installer”
• Do the same with the librazik-apt package

• Reopen the Synaptic Package Manager
  • Click on “Reload”
  • Here you might get an error of the type: This error is benign ⁴⁾. If you want to correct it right away, go read this page (in French). Otherwise, you can continue by clicking “Close”.
• Then “Reload” again Synaptic
• Do a search on “librazik-”
  • Install the meta-packages according to your needs while accepting automatic proposals of packages to be installed or uninstalled.

• → You may be asked this:
  • Do you need to enable real-time process priority management? [yes/no]
  • Enter yes and then the ↵ Enter.

• Once you've installed the software, do a update
• Close Synaptic
• Finally, close the session and log in again so that some things (menu, part of the theme,…) can be taken into account

To finish installing your LibraZiK-3 audio studio, you will want to add some configurations to your system.