Installation Problem

[amk]

Forgive my lack of knowledge, I am not technical and being 70 does not help.
I believe I followed the instructions to download from the Audacity web site.
But all I have is a bunch of Files.
I do not see anything else. There are 34 items when I click on the Audacity file.
I have Linux Mint 19.1 I believe.
Thank you for your time and effort.

[Tomoms]

Forgive my lack of knowledge, I am not technical and being 70 does not help.
I believe I followed the instructions to download from the Audacity web site.
But all I have is a bunch of Files.
I do not see anything else. There are 34 items when I click on the Audacity file.
I have Linux Mint 19.1 I believe.
Thank you for your time and effort.

The proper way of installing Audacity on Linux Mint is to install it from the official software repositories. To do so, open the Software Manager (you should find it in the main menu) and type "audacity" in the search bar. The first result should be what you're looking for. Installing it from there should be pretty straightforward (you should find a big "Install" button or something similar).

[amk]

I have Linux Mint 19.1
I downloaded from the Official site
It is Audacity 2.3.3
It was Not from the Source Code,
I see No Audacity Icon on my Computer,
But when I go to my Menu and type in Audacity, I see audacity-minsrc-2.3.3 and when I click on it
It sends me to my Files and a File with the Audacity Name on it and inside the file I see 34 items such as:
autotools, cmake-proxies, dox2-src, help, etc.

[steve]

But when I go to my Menu and type in Audacity, I see audacity-minsrc-2.3.3

"audacity-minsrc-2.3.3" is the source code.

As Tomoms wrote:
Open the Software Manager (you should find it in the main menu) and type "audacity" in the search bar. The first result should be what you're looking for. Installing it from there.

[amk]

SOLVED by YOU!
Thanks, the problem really was I did not comprehend what you told me initially. At this age it takes awhile.
Now, somewhere I read something about WINE. Do I need this?
Also, where do I find out about purchasing Audacity to export to MP3.
Thanks again for your time and effort.

[Tomoms]

SOLVED by YOU!
Thanks, the problem really was I did not comprehend what you told me initially. At this age it takes awhile.
Now, somewhere I read something about WINE. Do I need this?
Also, where do I find out about purchasing Audacity to export to MP3.
Thanks again for your time and effort.

Wine is a software that lets you run on Linux programs designed for Windows. Since Audacity is natively available in Linux (in fact, now you have installed it successfully), there is absolutely no need for you to worry about Wine. You don't need it.
In order to export to mp3, you don't need to purchase anything. You might need to install the LAME encoder but I think Linux Mint provides it by default (not sure about this, though).
I suggest that you try to export to mp3 as though nothing more is needed, and see if Audacity complains about anything, or lets you export to mp3 without issues.

[amk]

I downloaded LAME and it seems all went OK, but the last screen showed LAUNCH but when I click it won't launch.
Any ideas?