Add KX Studio Repositories

[JayM]

@JayM: do you really think that https://kx.studio/Repositories is not to be trusted? (Note this is not a criticism but a learning phase)

What asqwerth said. If their repos are for the current stable version of Debian, which is Buster, they won't be compatible with MX 18.3, which is based on Debian oldstable, Stretch. If they add dependencies to try to make their apps work those are going to break MX 18. Let the MX packaging team do the "heavy lifting" and see if they can make the app or apps that are wanted work using the Stretch libraries and whatnot, or verify that the KX Studio repos are safe for MX. Either that or wait until MX-19, which is based on Buster, to be released later this year.

[asqwerth]

You could also contact the Dev of KX Studio and ask if he is still maintaining his older repo for Debian Stretch.

[Aleph]

From the FAQ page on the MX Website:

Meanwhile I strongly suggest that you remove the repository you added before the MX Update tool pulls in who knows what from it and breaks your MX installation.

Yes, I did, thank you!

Friends, to many doubts now...

[Aleph]

Meanwhile I strongly suggest that you remove the repository you added before the MX Update tool pulls in who knows what from it and breaks your MX installation.

Yes, I did, thank you!

Friends, to many doubts now...

[sunrat]

Apparently KX repos have been updated and are now compatible with Buster, not Stretch. This wasn't the case until very recently so are not compatible with MX18 but will be for MX19. I apologise for incorrect advice as they were totally working for MX18 last I used them.

From https://kx.studio/Repositories -

The KXStudio repositories support all Debian versions since 10 (Buster) and Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) or above.
They should work on all Debian-based distributions and variants.

[Stevo]

Too bad, then. It would be nice if they or someone also did them on the OBS, which supports builds for lots of different releases of Debian and Ubuntu. I'm building a newer Mesa there for someone on Debian Buster to see if that helps get their Intel 9th gen GPU working--if it does, I may also backport it for our test repo to support new hardware:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show ... ort-buster

Of course, the KX repos should also be compatible with MX 19 now.

[sunrat]

Of course, the KX repos should also be compatible with MX 19 now.

Yes indeed. The older repos are still there but as implied in the quote in my previous post, are not supported.

[Aleph]

Well, them I have to wait for MX19... :(

Thank you, friends!

[sunrat]

You could add the unsupported repos, or just pick and download packages you want and install with gdebi or apt.
Or do what I do and have a separate partition with AVLinux which still has the old KX repos activated by default but I guess you won't get updates for packages from there now.
I plan to do a fresh MXStudio respin once MX19 is released and after a suitable period for any release bugs to be squashed. Most of its dedicated audio production packages come from KX and the KX repos are active by default. The testing is extensive on the MX19 beta versions currently so I expect it will be relatively bug-free on release.

[Aleph]

You could add the unsupported repos, or just pick and download packages you want and install with gdebi or apt.
Or do what I do and have a separate partition with AVLinux which still has the old KX repos activated by default but I guess you won't get updates for packages from there now.
I plan to do a fresh MXStudio respin once MX19 is released and after a suitable period for any release bugs to be squashed. Most of its dedicated audio production packages come from KX and the KX repos are active by default. The testing is extensive on the MX19 beta versions currently so I expect it will be relatively bug-free on release.

In that case I'm gonna wait for MX19. Or better, for your MXStudio :)