Installing Utau on Ubuntu Studio 22.04

The young artist wanted to try Utau, which as of May 24 was on version v0.4.19のインストーラー修正版.

Downloaded the installer utau0419cInstaller.zip and followed more or less steps found in the (now defunct) Utau forum at utaforum.net/threads/utau-in-ubuntu.620.

Run PlayOnLinux with the LANG set to Japanese, as required by Utau:

LANG=ja_JP.utf8 playonlinux

Created a 64-bit environment running Windows 10 and run the installer, clicked on an N button because everything else was unreadable. Eventually the installer finished, created a shortcut for utau.exe.

Sadly, the result of running the program after installation was only a UI full of unreadable blocky characters.

Tried to fix this by intalling allfonts following steps in activating Winetricks:

WINEPREFIX=~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/UTAU winetricks allfonts

After this, running the problem with playonlinux was OK.

Installing UTAU in Linux are other instructions that might work (better), possibly to be tested in the future.