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25 changes: 20 additions & 5 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -8,7 +8,22 @@ mod-panel is a simple control panel to start MOD Host + UI and SDK services.

## Usage

Simply clone this repository recursively (either with `git clone --recursive` or `git submodule --init --update` afterwards), build and run it:
Simply clone this repository recursively

```shell
git clone --recursive REPOSITORY_URL
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does this REPOSITORY_URL get autoreplaced on render? otherwise it should be the URL of this repo, so users can copy&paste directly.

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or init submodules using

```shell
git submodule init
git submodule update
```

in a cloned repository.

Then build and run it:

```sh
make
Expand All @@ -17,15 +32,15 @@ make

Afterwards simply click on "Start" for MOD Host + UI or SDK, and then its ">" button to open a browser on the predefined location.

If you have used [mod-plugin-builder](https://github.com/moddevices/mod-plugin-builder) before to build `x86_64` plugin binaries, the plugin path is adjusted automatically to it.
You can always override `LV2_PATH` environment variable to a custom location of your choosing.
If you have used [mod-plugin-builder](https://github.com/moddevices/mod-plugin-builder) before to build `x86_64` plugin binaries, the plugin path is adjusted automatically.
You can always override `LV2_PATH` environment variable to a custom location.

### Dependencies

ALSA, JACK and LV2 (lilv) libraries are required, as well as PyQt5 for the UI.

Python's `virtualenv` and `pip` is used to get the required versions of python libraries, as they cannot be too new or too old.
(so Linux distribution packages are often not usable here)
Python's `virtualenv` and `pip` is used to get the required versions of Python libraries
(Linux distribution packages are often not supported versions).

## Notes

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