# Setting up on Linux, some basic questions that googling didn't answer

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**Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/setting-up-on-linux-some-basic-questions-that-googling-didnt-answer/30503/10 "2018-11-28T17:12:20Z")

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The text in the tutorial needs to be updated. I’ll do that now.

JUCE’s embedded VST2 SDK has been removed. See the 5.4 release notes:

> [@JUCE 5.4.0 Released](https://forum.juce.com/t/juce-5-4-0-released/30215):
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> Headline features macOS Mojave and iOS 12 support JUCE has been updated to fully support the new macOS 10.14 Mojave and iOS 12 updates. Windows hiDPI support JUCE now supports building per-monitor DPI-aware applications on Windows 8.1+, meaning that JUCE applications will scale dynamically with the DPI of the monitor that they are on ensuring crisp UIs on high resolution displays. The VST client and hosting code has also been updated to support the Windows scaling APIs making it possi…

> [@The removal of JUCE’s embedded VST2 SDK](https://forum.juce.com/t/the-removal-of-juce-s-embedded-vst2-sdk/29994):
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> Hello JUCE users, Following Steinberg’s announcement that they are removing the VST2 components from the VST3 SDK [https://www.steinberg.net/en/newsandevents/news/newsdetail/article/vst-3611-sdk-now-available-4906.html](https://www.steinberg.net/en/newsandevents/news/newsdetail/article/vst-3611-sdk-now-available-4906.html) the JUCE team is also removing the VST2 header files from the JUCE repo. As of this commit [https://github.com/WeAreROLI/JUCE/commit/a3566b8c1edac29997490143982cd2b2eb089ffa](https://github.com/WeAreROLI/JUCE/commit/a3566b8c1edac29997490143982cd2b2eb089ffa) it is no longer possible to create VST2 plug-ins using JUCE’s embedded VST2 SDK. If you are an existing…

Those three errors look like a problem creating a file with spaces in its name: “Audio Plugin Tutorial”. This might be a JUCE bug. Does it work if you don’t use spaces?

The last error is because we don’t support VST3 on Linux. This is something we’re working on though.

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