Audacity Forum

removed .audacity folders

reinstalled program , runs now!

thanks for help
dan

from what I found on inet, sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove audacity was supposed to remove all including data files. None the less I will try individual removal of those 2 folders. As for default tmp folder, /var/tmp/.audacity_temp is what the program is going to automatically, so where should the ...

removed audacity sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove audacity unchecked repository of audacity installed via "ubuntu software" GUI same problem! will not even start as non-sudo. starts in sudo. checked folders/files against my 14.04 machine, and they are the same permssions when I open in sudo, it ask ...

Yes I know audacity should not be run as SUDO,

for me that is the only way it will run.

repository is

ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/audacity/ubuntu xenial

installed version is

2.1.3-0build3-ubuntu16.04

Dan

not for me, it does not run at all

DAN

well that's not true fro me. After the error , terminal goes back to cursor. However if I run Audacity as SUDO it start but I get .... "Audacity could not find a place to store temp files, click to select a place" so I click and "preference directories' opens pre selected is "var/tmp/audacity-root" ...

I have installed via apt 2.1.3.0build3-ubuntu16.04.

when I try to run AUDACITY I get this error in terminal:

(Audacity:6189): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()

any help would be appreciated!

thanks dan