Install this version:
emerge -a =media-sound/rew-5.31.3
If this version is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:
autounmask =media-sound/rew-5.31.3
Or alternatively:
emerge --autounmask-write -a =media-sound/rew-5.31.3
| Version | EAPI | Keywords | Slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.31.3 | 8 | ~amd64 | 0 |
# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=8
inherit desktop java-pkg-2 xdg
MY_PV="${PV//./_}"
APP_HOME="/opt/${PN}"
DESCRIPTION="Room acoustics, loudspeaker and audio device measurement software"
HOMEPAGE="https://www.roomeqwizard.com/"
# Use the no-JRE installer so the ebuild depends on Gentoo's Java 8 runtime
# instead of installing upstream's bundled private JVM.
SRC_URI="https://www.roomeqwizard.com/installers/REW_linux_no_jre_${MY_PV}.sh -> ${P}.sh"
S="${WORKDIR}/${P}"
LICENSE="REW-EULA"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64"
# The EULA forbids distribution of copies, so mirrors and binary packages are
# disabled. Upstream also ships prebuilt native audio libraries.
RESTRICT="bindist mirror strip"
BDEPEND="
app-arch/libarchive
virtual/jre:1.8
"
RDEPEND="
${DEPEND}
media-libs/alsa-lib
virtual/jre:1.8
x11-misc/xdg-utils
"
QA_PREBUILT="${APP_HOME#/}/libcsjsound_*.so"
src_unpack() {
local java_home jar unpack200
mkdir "${S}" || die
# The install4j .sh file is not a plain archive:
# - first comes the shell launcher,
# - then a zip payload with the application jars and native libraries,
# - finally a gzip tarball with install4j runtime jars.
# Extract the payloads directly instead of running the GUI installer.
tail -c +19182 "${DISTDIR}/${A}" > "${T}/payload.zip" || die
bsdtar -xf "${T}/payload.zip" -C "${S}" || die
tail -c 3170552 "${DISTDIR}/${A}" > "${T}/sfx_archive.tar.gz" || die
bsdtar -xzf "${T}/sfx_archive.tar.gz" -C "${S}/.install4j" \
i4jruntime.jar launcherd9d2fef3.jar || die
for vm in $(java-config-2 -n --list-available-vms 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/.*\[\([^]]*-8\)\].*/\1/p'); do
java_home=$(java-config-2 -n --select-vm="${vm}" --jre-home 2>/dev/null) || continue
[[ -x ${java_home}/bin/unpack200 ]] && break
java_home=
done
[[ -n ${java_home} ]] || die "Java 8 unpack200 was not found"
unpack200="${java_home}/bin/unpack200"
# install4j stores many dependency jars in Pack200 format while keeping
# their .jar names. They must be expanded before Java can load classes
# from them; the upstream GUI installer normally performs this step.
for jar in "${S}"/*.jar "${S}"/.i4j_external_1608/*.jar; do
[[ -f ${jar} ]] || continue
if "${unpack200}" "${jar}" "${jar}.unpacked" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
mv "${jar}.unpacked" "${jar}" || die
else
rm -f "${jar}.unpacked" || die
fi
done
}
src_install() {
insinto "${APP_HOME}"
doins ./*.jar EULA.html
doins .i4j_external_1608/csjsound-provider-1.0.jar
insinto "${APP_HOME}/.install4j"
# RoomEQ_Wizard_obf.jar imports install4j runtime classes at startup.
doins .install4j/i4jruntime.jar .install4j/launcherd9d2fef3.jar
doins .install4j/roomeqwizard.png
insinto "${APP_HOME}"
# Only amd64 is keyworded and tested.
java-pkg_sointo "${APP_HOME}"
java-pkg_doso .i4j_external_1608/libcsjsound_amd64.so
newins .i4j_external_896/roomeqwizard.vmoptions roomeqwizard.vmoptions
# Register the upstream jars with java-config. java-pkg_doso recorded the
# JNI library path above, so the launcher gets all runtime paths from Gentoo.
java-pkg_regjar "${ED}${APP_HOME}"/.install4j/*.jar "${ED}${APP_HOME}"/*.jar
# The generated launcher uses java-config-2. The prelude keeps REW's own
# update checks disabled and loads upstream's install4j JVM options file.
java-pkg_dolauncher roomeqwizard \
--main roomeqwizard.RoomEQ_Wizard \
--pwd "${EPREFIX}${APP_HOME}" \
-pre "${FILESDIR}/roomeqwizard-pre"
dosym roomeqwizard /usr/bin/rew
doicon -s 256 .install4j/roomeqwizard.png
make_desktop_entry roomeqwizard "Room EQ Wizard" roomeqwizard "AudioVideo;Audio;"
}
media-libs/alsa-lib virtual/jre:1.8 x11-misc/xdg-utils
app-arch/libarchive virtual/jre:1.8
| Type | File | Size | Source URLs |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIST | rew-5.31.3.sh | 31882909 bytes | https://www.roomeqwizard.com/installers/REW_linux_no_jre_5_31_3.sh |