Audacity won't start on Mageia 8

I have been using Audacity on Mageia 8 and earlier versions of Mageia for many years with no problems. After some recent Mageia updates, now Audacity won’t start. I have deleted Audacity and re-installed it with same result. I’m using the officially supported version of Audacity from Mageia’s files. I use Plasma/KDE desktop. Can anyone help?

Here is what I see on the console:

audacity: Symbol _ZTV17wxVScrolledWindow' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV11wxStaticBox’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV5wxPen' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV12wxHtmlWindow’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV8wxChoice' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV7wxFrame’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV15wxMessageDialog' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV14wxBitmapButton’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV23wxDatePickerCtrlGeneric' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV10wxRadioBox’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV10wxSpinCtrl' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV6wxGrid’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV14wxToggleButton' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV13wxRadioButton’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV10wxCheckBox' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV10wxTreebook’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV9wxControl' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV8wxSlider’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV16wxDatePickerCtrl' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV11wxMiniFrame’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV17wxMDIClientWindow' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV12wxButtonBase’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV17wxGenericTreeCtrl' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV16wxTopLevelWindow’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV11wxStatusBar' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV10wxVListBox’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV14wxStaticBitmap' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV16wxScrolledWindow’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV11wxScrollBar' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV17wxTextEntryDialog’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV11wxDirDialog' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV10wxComboBox’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV8wxDialog' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV14wxListCtrlBase’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV7wxPanel' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV16wxFileDialogBase’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV9wxListBox' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV11wxAnyButton’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV14wxLogFormatter' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV17wxGenericListCtrl’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV14wxBookCtrlBase' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV10wxTreeCtrl’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol _ZTV8wxButton' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking audacity: Symbol _ZTV10wxListCtrl’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
audacity: Symbol `_ZTV7wxGauge’ has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

(audacity:62980): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:45:17.524: A floating object was finalized. This means that someone
called g_object_unref() on an object that had only a floating
reference; the initial floating reference is not owned by anyone
and must be removed with g_object_ref_sink().


Warning: Program ‘/usr/bin/env’ crashed.

What is your system language?
Which version of Audacity?

System default language is American English. The version of Audacity is 64 bit, 2.4.2-9.mga8.

Try the Audacity 3.1.3 AppImage from the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

Note that an AppImage does not need to be installed. Just put it somewhere convenient (such as your home folder) and make it executable. Double click the AppImage to launch Audacity.

The Audacity 3.1.3 AppImage runs properly on Mageia 8, but I can only start it as root.

However, during the last 24 hours, Mageia released an update to Audacity 2.4.2, their officially supported version, and now Audacity 2.4.2 runs properly on Mageia 8.

Perhaps Mageia will support version 3 soon.

Problem is solved.

No rush. Audacity 2.4.2 is a good version. The biggest difference between Audacity 2.4.2 and Audacity 3.x is the new Project format (“AUP3” project file replaces “AUP file + _data folder”).