Hey fine Audacity folks,
I’ve installed the newest version of Audacity as instructed by http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-install-audacity-2-0-in-ubuntu-12-0411-1011-04
I am on Ubuntu 12.04
When I try to launch Audacity from the Launcher, nothing happens. Why? Help! I’ve tried re-installing it, and nothing happens.
~Tyler
I used the following to install audacity 2.0.2: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audacity-team/daily
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
This PPA contains daily builds from audacity's subversion repository at
http://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/list
To install run
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audacity-team/daily
More info: https://launchpad.net/~audacity-team/+archive/daily
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpcTf8OT/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpcTf8OT/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key BB901940 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpcTf8OT/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key BB901940: public key "Launchpad Daily Build" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
sudo apt-get update
(..a large amount of text..)
and
sudo apt-get install audacity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libqimageblitz4 python-kiwi libpoppler-qt4-3 libokularcore1abi1
postgresql-contrib-8.4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
audacity-data libportsmf0 libsbsms10
Suggested packages:
ladspa-plugin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
audacity audacity-data libportsmf0 libsbsms10
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
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Unpacking audacity (from .../audacity_2.0.2+svn20121011+r7371-0~r17~precise1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
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Came up with the same error message
How do I build it from the source code?
Thanks for the help.
sudo apt-get build-dep audacity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmp3lame-dev libportaudiocpp0 libportsmf-dev libsbsms-dev
libsoundtouch-dev portaudio19-dev
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 1,930 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libportaudiocpp0 i386 19+svn20111121-1 [19.7 kB]
Get:2 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libmp3lame-dev i386 3.99.3+repack1-1 [184 kB]
Get:3 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libportsmf-dev i386 0.1~svn20101010-3 [88.4 kB]
Get:4 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libsbsms-dev i386 2.0.0-3 [145 kB]
Get:5 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libsoundtouch-dev i386 1.6.0-2build1 [12.7 kB]
Get:6 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main portaudio19-dev i386 19+svn20111121-1 [127 kB]
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Setting up libsoundtouch-dev (1.6.0-2build1) ...
Setting up portaudio19-dev (19+svn20111121-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
sudo apt-get install audacity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libqimageblitz4 python-kiwi libpoppler-qt4-3 libokularcore1abi1
postgresql-contrib-8.4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
audacity-data
Suggested packages:
ladspa-plugin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
audacity audacity-data
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
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Selecting previously unselected package audacity-data.
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Selecting previously unselected package audacity.
Unpacking audacity (from .../audacity_2.0.2+svn20121011+r7371-0~r17~precise1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up audacity-data (2.0.2+svn20121011+r7371-0~r17~precise1) ...
Setting up audacity (2.0.2+svn20121011+r7371-0~r17~precise1) ...
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xxx@xxx-Compaq:~$ audacity
audacity: error while loading shared libraries: libSoundTouch.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I’ve just tried this on a fresh, up to date installation of Ubuntu 12.04 and it works as expected.
On launching Audacity from the command line there is a lot of output while Audacity looks for available audio devices:
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround71
ALSA lib setup.c:565:(add_elem) Cannot obtain info for CTL elem (MIXER,'IEC958 Playback Default',0,0,0): No such file or directory
ALSA lib setup.c:565:(add_elem) Cannot obtain info for CTL elem (MIXER,'IEC958 Playback Default',0,0,0): No such file or directory
ALSA lib setup.c:565:(add_elem) Cannot obtain info for CTL elem (MIXER,'IEC958 Playback Default',0,0,0): No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1614:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1614:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1614:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1614:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1670
Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1830
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2092
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2764
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4541
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:612:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:612:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:612:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
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ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:612:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:612:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:612:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
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ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:612:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
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Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4541
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4541
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4541
This is normal and Audacity should open after that.