I tried building it myself using steve’s instructions but didn’t have much luck unfortunately. Just hoping the person who runs the PPA could consider making a version available on PPA which has mod script pipe enabled.
Mod-script-pipe works in the current 3.0.3 AppImage.
Things that don’t work (for me) in the AppImage:
- FFmpeg (not recognized)
- Jack (not recognized)
- Translations (English only)
If those limitations are not critical for you, then you can get the Audacity 3.0.3 AppImage from the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/linux/
(Note that the Audacity 3.0.3 AppImage has update checking enabled by default, but if you can switch that off if you don’t want it in Preferences - there is a pop-up message on first run that has a link to the preference.)
Having recently upgraded from Debian 9 to 10.10.0, I can confirm the above.
- FFmpeg (not recognized)
Not a big deal, as can convert before importing.
- Jack (not recognized)
The jack thing is a real problem for me, so no go.
Audacity creates temporary PulseAudio connections which last only whilst playing back.
This is a problem for monitoring the output of Audacity on a Jack based system and
sending an audio feed from another connection/app to record in Audacity.
- Translations (English only)
Not a problem for me, but can see it as a show stopper for others.