I use Xubuntu 16.04.
My procedure is like this post with just a few modifications: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/building-audacity-2-1-2-on-ubuntu-15-10/40680/1
Differences:
- Configure Audacity:
../configure --with-lib-preference="local system" --with-ffmpeg="system" --disable-dynamic-loading
- Build audacity;
make -j8
Note that I’m building on an 8 core i7. This tells “make” to run jobs on all 8 cores. If your processor has a different number of cores, change the number accordingly.
Without the “j” option, “make” will use a single core (and take much longer to build).
Before running step 6, if step 5 completes correctly, it should be possible to launch Audacity with:
./audacity