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I was uninstalling wine, and I saw that it also uninstalled LMMS at the same time. Thinking it was just something weird that happened, I went and tried lmms - naturally, it didn't start, saying it was uninstalled. So I tried sudo apt-get install lmms, and it listed wine1.4 as a package to be installed.

Why does LMMS need wine to run? It seems kind of counterintuitive/silly that Linux Multimedia Studio needs to be run as if it were made for Windows, not Linux.

Edit: My system is fully updated, and here's a picture of my terminal output when I try to install lmms. Note that all the other components, as listed by Uri, are installed completely: enter image description here I also tried sudo apt-get -f install, sudo apt-get clean and sudo apt-get autoclean, and none of those helped.

ananaso
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    No it doesn't the listed packages are: caps libfluidsynth1 librtaudio4 librtmidi1 libstk0c2a lmms lmms-common stk tap-plugins tcl8.4 and tk8.4, you must have something else installed that requires Wine. – Uri Herrera Apr 29 '13 at 00:17
  • I posted a picture of what my terminal is showing. My system is fully updated, as well. – ananaso Apr 29 '13 at 00:41
  • I can only see the listed packages Uri Herrera also sees, when I try to install lmms. Wine is not installed, I am on 12.04 (64bit)... wine dependencies come from somewhere else. – mondjunge Aug 05 '13 at 09:24
  • @mondjunge Yeah, Radu pinpointed it in his answer - it's probably due to VST plugin support, which depends on wine. So I could probably install it without that using the Software Center. (Which I also just noticed you pointed out in a comment on that answer) – ananaso Aug 07 '13 at 01:57

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LMMS supports the native Linux LADSPA plugin specification and the VST/VSTi standard for Windows plugins. (...) Like all other mechanisms for VST support in Linux LMMS depends on WINE to instantiate those plugins, and WINE's volatility makes it difficult to predict which plugins will run.

Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-lmms-linux-multimedia-studio

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  • True, I wanted to point out the same with a link to the compiling specs for lmms: http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Compiling_LMMS#Optional_.28but_strongly_recommended.29_libraries , concluding, that you could possibly build an lmms without wine dependency but also without VST-Plugin Support. – mondjunge Aug 05 '13 at 09:33
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Package lmms does not actually depend on wine. Rather, lmms recommends lmms-vst-server, which in turn depends on wine, and such recommended packages are treated as dependencies by default.

To install lmms without its recommended packages including wine, you may prefer to use:

apt-get install --no-install-recommends lmms
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