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I use Python a bit more often than Perl, so I'll start with that. That's good. Python is now the recommended language for scripting with mod-script-pipe. I'd recommend using Python 3 (Python 2 is rapidly becoming obsolete). When you get the Audacity 2.3.1 source code, take a look in "scripts/p...

I'll definitely look into 2.3.1. I use Python a bit more often than Perl, so I'll start with that. I'm not planning on doing anything that should be particularly complicated (yet).

That appears to have been the issue, thanks. You're welcome :D Now that you've got the build working, I'd recommend that you build Audacity 2.3.1. It is officially still "alpha" software, but we are very close to releasing it. There's a LOT of new stuff in it for scripting, so I'd highly ...

That appears to have been the issue, thanks. I had seen that post, but assumed that I had all of the build dependencies since I had the official repository version installed previously, forgetting that the -dev packages aren't always installed for that.

Do you have libavformat-dev installed?
(it may be worth also referring to this post: viewtopic.php?p=331010#p331010)

Configure fails with the message

You are correct that mod-script-pipe is not enabled by default.
Why do you think that FFmpeg can't be found?

Here's the configure command:

... the instructions here in order to enable mod-script-pipe (which, as far as I can tell, isn't available for any of the repository versions). I have ffmpeg 3.4.4 installed from the Ubuntu repository (libavcodec.so.57 is located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu); pkg-config --libs libavcodec returns -lavcodec ...

Also, why are you building Audacity 2.2.2? (Audacity 2.2.2 is available in the Ubuntu repository https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suit ... chon=names )