# Installing audio plugins

IMPORTANT FOR VST INSTALLATIONS: If you deploy plugins as a subdirectory of your VST2 directory, the subdirectory should contain substring 'lsp-plugins'. Otherwise plugins won't find the VST2 core library. Please notice that '~' means user's home directory.

1. 1. For Linux/FreeBSD

The usual directories for LADSPA are:

` * /usr/lib/ladspa`  
` * /usr/local/lib/ladspa`  
` * /usr/lib64/ladspa`  
` * /usr/local/lib64/ladspa`  
` * ~/.ladspa`  
` `

The usual directories for LV2 are:

` * /usr/lib/lv2`  
` * /usr/local/lib/lv2`  
` * /usr/lib64/lv2`  
` * /usr/local/lib64/lv2`  
` * ~/.lv2`

The usual directories for LinuxVST are:

` * /usr/lib/vst`  
` * /usr/local/lib/vst`  
` * /usr/lib64/vst`  
` * /usr/local/lib64/vst`  
` * ~/.lxvst`  
` * ~/.vst`

The usual directories for JACK core library are:

` * /usr/lib`  
` * /usr/local/lib`  
` * /lib`  
` * /usr/lib64`  
` * /usr/local/lib64`  
` * /lib64`

The usual directories for JACK binaries are:

` * /usr/bin`  
` * /usr/local/bin`  
` * /bin`  
` * /usr/sbin`  
` * /usr/local/sbin`  
` * /sbin`  
` `

The usual directories for CLAP are:

` * /usr/lib/clap`  
` * /usr/local/lib/clap`  
` * /usr/lib64/clap`  
` * /usr/local/lib64/clap`  
` * ~/.clap`