Uninstalling Audacity from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

[EllyBilateralCI]

Hi,

I've recently installed Audacity using the compile method from Audacity source forge with this method:

A suggested apt-get command to install the above dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install gettext libasound2-dev libflac-dev libflac++-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-dev libid3tag0-dev libjack0.100.0-dev libmad0-dev libogg-dev libtwolame0 libtwolame-dev libvorbis-dev libwxbase2.6-dev libwxgtk-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev twolame portaudio19-dev wx2.6-headers zlib1g-dev


A suggested ./configure command for full functionality:
$ ./configure --with-libvorbis --with-libflac --with-libid3tag --with-soundtouch

Now I want to uninstall it because it is causing a lot of problems with audio and recording. For example I used Rhythmbox's internet radio station such as BBC Radio 2 and I clicked on record and it doesn't do anything despite checking Audacity to ensure the recording method is correct such as choosing default for Playback and the first audio card selected for recording before actually recording....it worked before when I had Lucid Lynx Beta version but I had to reinstall Lucid from scratch cos I couldn't get headphone to work with the beta version and now it is audacity that causes rhythmbox to stop functioning properly when I have the audacity program....something keeps interfering with it....I tried gnome alsa mixer, pulse volume control and the system volume control to get a balance to get a true recording but instead I got low volume and static and other times I got nothing - it was so frustrating and I spent ages on it to and my patience was getting impatience!!! It's weird because I had no problem in lucid lynx beta and so I wonder if it is because I had a previous audacity version....
so it would be great if you could give me guidance to uninstall audacity.

Many thanks for your patience and time. Your help is really appreciated.

[steve]

From the Audacity source code directory,

Code: Select all

sudo make uninstall

If you want to uninstall any of the libraries that you installed with "sudo apt-get install", the safest way is probably to use Synaptic.

[EllyBilateralCI]

I did as per instructed and got this:

sudo make uninstall audacity
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.

What do I do now?

[steve]

Are you sure that you are running the command from the correct directory?

For example if your source code is in
"/home/<user-name>/audacity"
you will need to change to that directory - so in this example you would open a terminal window and enter:
cd audacity

then run sudo make uninstall

[EllyBilateralCI]

Thank you so much....in fact I did this command first:

locate audacity and it gave a whole list of locations where audacity is stored.

I've got rid of it but I think.

I've tried install audacity in synaptic but it is not installing because of the different versions that it has in its Lucid library at Ubuntu server.

[steve]

I'm not sure that I understand. Are you saying that you have deleted everything that you can find from your old Audacity installation, but still have a problem in that you want to install Audacity with Synaptic but it won't install?

[EllyBilateralCI]

Here is what I mean from the synaptic package manager list attached....note the different build version aren't the same therefore it won't install audacity!

[bgravato]

What a big mess...

I always discourage compiling software when it's available from the distro's repositories...

Manually deleting files to uninstall an app is usually not a good policy either...

The correct procedure for uninstalling compiled from source software is like steve said... 'cd' into the source directory and run 'make uninstall'. If you already deleted that folder you can unpack the source code again, run the configure command again with the same options as before and then run 'make uninstall' (become root before running that command or use sudo).

I don't see why audacity would interfere with rythmbox... I'd bet that was related to some libraries or gnome applets upgrades or similar...