Audacity Forum

Beatnik: You're completely blameless, although you are responsible for getting me to Steve's instructions. Thus you're to be thanked: Thank you. As to having to reinstall Ubuntu, that was the result of my attempting to load a PPA without knowing what I was doing. The last command seemed to be asking...

Well, it's done. You're instructions were perfect once I got out of the way. I have one suggestion: After Step 5 ('make'), add the following: Grab your favorite libation and relax.

Now I'm on to tweak it, with the help of the forum. Thanks again.

Steve: I appreciate your restraint in chastising me for questioning the validity of your instructions. I should have remembered that 99% of errors are user - rather than instructor - generated. This was not the first time I'd installed from source code, but it's the first time I understood that's wh...

OK, I think you're right, and I need libwxgtk3.0-dev, but I'm pretty literal, and libwxgtk3.0-dev is different from the wxgtk 3.0 mentioned at the start of the instructions (not to mention the four items listed in my software repository.) I follow your explanation, but I assumed "Install libwxgtk3.0...

Checking for WxGTK 3.0, I find four versions: two each for "media library" and "toolkit". Two of them are "...-dbg:i386" while the other two are just "...-dbg". I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but I don't know which I should load.

According to the Software Center, "build-essential" is currently installed.

Wait: Is "build-essential" something separate from what follows under Dependencies? If so, I haven't installed that, but am not sure what command to use to do so.

No, 4 went through. I added the "build-essential" by "sudo apt-get build-dep audacity" and then started on the numbered instructions. The only instruction I haven't carried out is to add "WxGTK 3.0". Should I do that first?

I got as far as #5 in the "Building Audacity ..." instructions. That command is "make". Here's the response:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Are the instructions missing something?

IJ

Thank you Beatnik and Gale. I'll give the compiling a try, the instructions to which Beatnik linked appear straightforward for me. Much appreciation.
Ira