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Thanks for the other desktop suggestions--I will definitely check them out when I take the plunge and upgrade. I appreciate all the support you provide for Audacity.

I see there are many programs I use that depend on libsndfile, so I don't want to try to change this file at this point. I've put off upgrading Ubuntu partly because of the new Unity desktop, and partly because I have a dual boot with Windows XP (another obsolete OS, I know!) using an old version of...

You are correct: I have libsndfile1 1.0.21-2.

Is there a way to know what programs are dependent on this package? That would give me an idea whether I'd want to build the newer version.

Steve, Thanks for your suggestions. I have attempted your instructions, including re-installing the repository version of Audacity and then removing it completely (and I also uninstalled Audacity 2.0.3 from the command line). Everything worked fine until make |tee build.log when I encountered an err...

I tried your commands and after "sudo make install" it returned what appears to be the same error as before: export/ExportFLAC.cpp -o export/ExportFLAC.o g++ -c -I../lib-src/portmixer/include -Wall -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-release-2.8 -I/usr/include/wx-2.8 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_F...

Hi, Gale, These are the steps I followed: sudo apt-get install subversion svn checkout http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/audacity-src/trunk/ audacity-read-only sudo apt-get build-dep audacity #sudo apt-get install cmake [cmake was already installed, so I skipped this step] cd audacity-read-only ./c...

I followed the instructions at http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CompilingAudacityForBeginners#Example_compiling_the_latest_Audacity_from_source_on_Ubuntu to install the latest version of Audacity but I am getting an error message after I type sudo make install make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jch...