Problem Installing Audacity 3 on Chromebook

Audacity 3 Help Forum GNU/Linux
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I have a Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook with aarch Linux activated. The chip is a Snapdragon ARM.

I was able to install Audacity from the repo, but it is version 2.4.2. I am trying to install one of the variants of version 3. The appimage does not work. It throws an error and doesn’t load. So I tried the flatpak. It opens, but when I try to open a file from the file menu, the window that opens extends past the top of the screen and there seems to be no way that I can move it.

Any solutions for this?

Thanks

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Chromebooks are not officially supported.

If 2.4.2 works, I’d suggest that you use that (I’m using 2.4.2 on Linux because it is the most stable and reliable version for Linux).

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Good suggestion. I do like some of the enhancements in version 3, but 2.4.2 is working fine and I’ll stick with it.

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Hello!,
I have installed Audacity 3.2.3 on my Acer Chromebook.
I can get only working with the instruction : “./audacity-3.2.3xxxx” but I can’t put it in the app lauchner by doing : “./audacity-3.2.3xxxx install”.
If I do it, Audacity works but I have the message : “install could not be found, It has been removed from the list of recent files”??
So to use Audacity, I need to work with the terminaI.
Is there any other solution to work your app?
Thanks for your answer
Bernardino

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There are Linux installation instructions on the download page: Audacity ® | | Download for Linux

For Chromebook, note:

Audacity does not run directly on Chrome OS, but Chrome OS 69 or later support running containerized Linux. At time of writing, Linux support in Chrome OS is experimental – refer to Google support for information about running Linux applications on Chrome OS.

Note in the upper right-hand corner of this page you can also search the forum for existing posts mentioning “Chromebook”.