Guitar Pro ported to Linux

As you may (not) know, Guitar Pro has been ported to Linux and it's also available for download (win/mac/linux)
http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php?pg=download
the deb package scared me a little bit but i'm sure that it's possible to get it running under arch :>

I tried to use deb2targz with the file GuitarPro6Demo-rev8217.deb downloaded from the official guitar pro web site. The only thing I got was the error message: "Out of memory!", appearing after a while. That's probably because of the big file size (369 MB). Does anybody know how to overcome this obstacle? Thanks.
SOLVED with AUR PKGBUILD at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36390, modifying the name of the file to GuitarPro6Demo.deb and correcting the md5sums in the PKGBUILD. After installing, in order to get it working, I deleted the file libz.so.1 in /opt/GuitarPro6, so that it had to use system library I think, otherwise some version error about zlib arose. Finally GP on Linux!!!
Last edited by jackjackk (2010-08-14 22:44:33)

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