Installing Audacity

iraj · Post by **iraj** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 11:22 pm

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, and Audacity 2.0.5 (the only one supplied with 14.04) has stopped responding. I love the program, but am incompetent when it comes to running manual program installation in Ubuntu. (I can run a terminal, but need explicit line-by-line instructions on the commands to use.) So I can't install the latest version of Audacity. I looked on the forum for installation instructions, without success. If they're here, can someone point me to them? If not, can someone help with what I need?
Thank you.

Beatnik · Post by **Beatnik** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 4:16 am

I used these instructions for 14.04. This what you're looking for ?

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 19&t=88943

Post by **Gale Andrews** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 2:19 pm

iraj wrote:I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, and Audacity 2.0.5 (the only one supplied with 14.04) has stopped responding. I love the program, but am incompetent when it comes to running manual program installation in Ubuntu. (I can run a terminal, but need explicit line-by-line instructions on the commands to use.) So I can't install the latest version of Audacity. I looked on the forum for installation instructions, without success. If they're here, can someone point me to them? If not, can someone help with what I need?

Beatnik gave you instructions to compile Audacity 2.1.2. If you are not comfortable with compiling then you can install a recommendable 2.1.2 PPA of Audacity (you do install this at the command-line). See https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/ ... u/audacity.

If 2.0.5 freezes during playback, the problem may be this: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linux_Issues#pulse. 2.1.2 will be affected the same way.

If you do compile Audacity 2.1.2 or install the 2.1.2 PPA, ensure you uninstall 2.0.5 first:

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sudo apt-get remove audacity

Gale

iraj · Post by **iraj** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:12 pm

Thank you Beatnik and Gale. I'll give the compiling a try, the instructions to which Beatnik linked appear straightforward for me. Much appreciation.
Ira

iraj · Post by **iraj** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:10 am

I got as far as #5 in the "Building Audacity ..." instructions. That command is "make". Here's the response:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Are the instructions missing something?

IJ

Post by **steve** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:24 am

iraj wrote:make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Did step 4 end with an error?
Did you follow all of the instructions in that post that come before "Build Audacity"?

iraj · Post by **iraj** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:32 am

No, 4 went through. I added the "build-essential" by "sudo apt-get build-dep audacity" and then started on the numbered instructions. The only instruction I haven't carried out is to add "WxGTK 3.0". Should I do that first?

iraj · Post by **iraj** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:35 am

Wait: Is "build-essential" something separate from what follows under Dependencies? If so, I haven't installed that, but am not sure what command to use to do so.

iraj · Post by **iraj** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:39 am

According to the Software Center, "build-essential" is currently installed.

iraj · Post by **iraj** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:48 am

Checking for WxGTK 3.0, I find four versions: two each for "media library" and "toolkit". Two of them are "...-dbg:i386" while the other two are just "...-dbg". I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but I don't know which I should load.

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