How to install help manual?

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How to install help manual?

Post by qajaq1949 » Sun Jan 06, 2019 2:21 am

I'm using Linux Kubuntu 14.04 (and will soon be installing 18.04), running Audacity 2.0.5, installed by using the apt-get service. I found the software's interface sufficiently intuitive for a couple of small audio-editing jobs I had, but now I want to learn more of Audacity's capabilities for recording from live source. I would like to have the Help and Manual files on my local disk, for use when I may not have Internet access.

The installation apparently did not include the Help and User Manual files, so I downloaded the zip files from fosshub.com, then tried to install the files according to the directions on https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/unz ... anual.html. However, I am still getting an error message when I try to open the manual from Audacity's menubar. The error message tells me "You do not appear to have the 'help' folder installed."

I have unzipped the files into /usr/share/audacity/audacity-manual/2.3.0/ as the instructions appear to require. Am I misreading or are there steps I've failed to intuit?

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Re: How to install help manual?

Post by steve » Sun Jan 06, 2019 2:30 am

You can get the 2.0.5 manual from here: https://code.google.com/archive/p/audacity/downloads
The instructions should work for that version.
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