wxwidgets

[tiktin]

I am trying to install audacity 1.2.6 on suse pro 9.3. When I do ./configure, the program tells me I do not have the right version of wxwidgets installed. They are right. I have wxwidgets 2.5.x, which, the program tells me, is not supported. They also tell me I need wxwidgets 2.4.x. 2.5.x is the version that came with my version of suse. They suggest I go to the widgets web site to get the right version. I checked the widgets website and the earliest version they have available for download is 2.6.x. I think they are now up to 2.8.x. Anyway, they do not have 2.4.x. I did check for posts on widgets in this forum but did not find anything helpful. Is there someplace else I can get wxwidgets 2.4.x suitable for my system, or is there some workaround? Or do the later versions of audacity work with later versions of wxwidgets? Thanks.

[steve]

I wouldn't bother trying to compile Audacity 1.2.x - it's very old now and things have moved on a long way (especially in the Linux desktop world).

I have successfully built Audacity 1.3.6 on Ubuntu using WxWidgets 2.8

Some information that may help: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... g_On_Linux

[tiktin]

Thanks for your reply. I really shouldn't be doing this because I don't know enough about it, but I keep trying. I followed your advice and got audacity-src-1.3.6. I also got, and installed wxWidgets-2.8.7. Now when I do ./configure in audacity, it is telling me that it can't find wxWidgets version 2.8.x or higher. This is probably because after I installed widgets it said I have to run ldconfig "if you installed a shared library" and also "modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent) environment variable". I do not recall installing a shared library but I ran ldconfig both in audacity and widgets and also added the path to these folders to the PATH environment variable. I also created the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and pointed it to the wxWidgets folder. Obviously, I am totally clueless and have no idea what I am doing. Can you tell me the right way to get audacity to find wxwidgets? Thanks.

[steve]

Sorry, I don't yet know enough about Linux.
You could however try installing one of these packages: http://packman.links2linux.org/package/286 or check the Suse repository for a package (I think Suse classify Audacity as "restricted", "non-free" or something like that because of the inclusion of MP3 support).