Installing reaper

Hi all,
I have just attempted an install of reaper using the terminal:

sudo pamac install reaper

The process, according to the terminal, all completed perfectly. This included 1.2 GB of downloaded dependencies. I assume that’s what they were, because I know that the reaper installer is only about 15 MB!
At the end, I got the message:

installation completed successfully.

But whenever I try to run the app, the taskbar icon appears for 1 second and then disappears.
If anyone has any suggestions as to why this is happening and how to fix it, I’d be most appreciative!
Cheers.

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 6.1.29-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 7.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 7580

Please run the app by terminal - the output in terminal is a little hint whats wrong with the reaper…

Woah. OK, that launched the app!
So why would the shortcut from the start menu not work?

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However, the app is only detecting Jack. I thought pipewire was now installed by default in Manjaro?
Sorry, I know that’s a different issue. I’ll start a separate thread for that.

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You may edit (as Admin!) the file
/usr/share/applications/cockos-reaper.desktop
That is related to the shortcut from the start menu.
The path to (The Grim) reaper should be /usr/bin/reaper
So Exec=/usr/bin/reaper may be correct
– I do not use Reaper.

PipeWire is not installed by default.
Manjaro users can install manjaro-pipewire to replace PulseAudio default audio server with PipeWire

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Don’t use sudo pamac. Pamac will ask you for the password when it needs it.

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