missing effects and directory problem

[graybelt]

greetings!
more often than not, i am facing this problem, that effects are missing when loading others' projects
the warning window is like this:
The plugin "eq" wasn't found or could not be loaded!
Reason: "Cannot load library /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lmms/eq: (/usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lmms/libeq.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"

also bitcrush and other filters come up with this

i did a search on the whole system with

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sudo find / -iname libeq.so

and for the directory

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sudo find / -iwholename x86_64-linux-gnu/lmms

to no avail
my lmms version is 1.1.3
system is:
Linux buster 4.19.0-12-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (2020-10-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux
please help

[musikbear]

greetings!

Hi, Welcome to the Forum graybelt !
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There are several thing here we need to fix :)
Lets start with the most important

my lmms version is 1.1.3

Oh dear..
I think its about 5 y old now..
Definitively upgrade! Current off. ver is 1.2.2
This one here:
https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/releases/d ... 4.AppImage

Much more stable and with many new features!
This is how to upgrade:
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=In ... w_versions

problem: effects are missing when loading others' projects

Yes! LMMS has a weakness in respect to coop. It can be because some does not use default installation path, and then the configs conflicts, but in your case you simply do not have a specific plugin installed, because you do not find it, when searching. That situation is also very common, and is caused when someone uses plugins that are not part of default installation. The only solution is to find that specific plugin, often it is necessary to ask the one that made that project.
We hope to get project exports to include all dependencies, but that will ofcause also lead to large project-files

[graybelt]

thanks musikbear!
you were right
with the Appimage they load seamless.
i will reinstall the system to debian testing, since only its repository has the newer version
and manual system upgrade seems quirky
(and it would be more comfortable opening others' project with an installed version
(not having to open Appimage and browse the Downloads))
(maybe i will try a hit on the repository first and getaway with lmms, and if it doesnt work out i'll do the system install)

[musikbear]

i will reinstall the system to debian testing, since only its repository has the newer version

I will not recommend that. In all Linux you should use the newest (1.2.2) official AppImage