I’ve downloaded and extracted Audacity 2.06 and my laptop is running on Linux Mint 17. However, there’s no clear icon to actually open the program. There are folders labeled autotools dox2-src, help, images, lib-src, locale etc. But there isn’t any clear way to just open the program and get started.
We do not supply Audacity as a ready to run package for Linux.
Install Audacity using your package manager (“Applications > Software Manager” or “Applications > Synaptic”).