Problem installing audacity on ubuntu 10.04

[mamboze]

Hi all,

I've been using Audacity 1.3.12 (beta) for a couple of years, installed on an desktop box running ubuntu, current version 10.04. All well and good, nice and stable. But recently I tried to install Audacity on a laptop, also running 10.04. But I get this output.

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~$ sudo apt-get install audacity
[sudo] password for roy: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  audacity: Depends: libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) but it is not installable or
                     libjack-0.116 but it is not installable
            Recommends: libavformat52 (>= 5:0.6~svn20100726) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I don't think it is a repository issue because audacity appears in synaptic but when I've tried installing it I get this error message:

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Could not mark all packages for installation or upgrade

The following packages have unresolvable dependencies. 
Make sure that all required repositories are added and enable in the preferences

Depends libjack-jack2.0(>=1.9.5~dfsg-14) but it is not installable or libjac-0.116 but it is not installable
Recommends: libavformat52 but it is not going to be installed

This is baffling me. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Gale Andrews]

To be frank, packaging problems are Ubuntu's responsibility, not ours. We only provide source code.

You can review the dependencies tree for the 1.3.12-2 package at http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/audacity (follow the links if necessary).

If packages are not installable it probably suggests that libraries the package depends on are missing. So, you will need to install those libraries until the errors stop.





Gale

[mamboze]

Thanks for your prompt reply. I'll follow up your suggestions re the library files. It looks like the only way to go.

Nevertheless, it is surprising (and a little misleading) that audacity remains on the ubuntu repos in an essentially broken state.

regards

[Gale Andrews]

Without suggesting this is necessarily the problem, if you installed Ubuntu from a downloaded CD image, it is probably a good idea to check the hash. You only need one or two corrupted library files to create all sorts of problems when you come to install extra programs


Gale