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Moilleadóir
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by Moilleadóir » Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:23 am
After a lot of fiddling about and testing the possibilities I’ve determined that the only plugin location that works for me is...
...but the manual (
How do I install plugins on Linux) says to use...
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~/.audacity-files/Plug-Ins
~/.audacity-data/Plug-Ins
Ubuntu 14.04.2
Audacity 2.0.5
It’s frustrating that such basic info can be wrong. Can it be corrected? Or is it a version thing?
(
/usr/share/audacity/plug-ins also works of course, but I prefer a user install)
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steve
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by steve » Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:03 pm
Moilleadóir wrote:Or is it a version thing?
It's a version thing. You are looking at the Audacity 2.1.0 manual.
Audacity 2.1.0 supports more locations for plugins. I'm currently using ~/.audacity-files/Plug-Ins for Nyquist plugins and ~/.audacity-data/Plug-Ins for LV2 plugins (which I find convenient as I have a lot of Nyquist plugins).
The 2.0.5 manual may be downloaded as a ZIP file from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/audaci ... ity/2.0.5/ (audacity-manual-2.0.5.zip)
If you want to install it locally (on your computer), see:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/un ... anual.html
(if you do install locally, double check that you install it in the correct location and then it will open from the link in the Audacity Help menu - it's easy to get the location wrong - don't ask me how I know that
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