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HOWTO: audacity
Description: Sound editor
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NOTE: I use GNU tar >= 1.13.25 so it's -j for .tar.bz2 files,
it's safe to assume that make, gcc, binutils, fileutils/coreutils, gawk, sed, and grep are prerequisites for almost everything

# Audacity
# ========
# Below I cover the latest stable and beta releases


# Audacity 1.2.6 (stable)
# ===============
# Prerequisites:
# pkg-config
# libsndfile
# libmad
# Ogg/Vorbis
# lame
# FLAC
# wxWidgets' wxGTK 2.4 (2.6 and 2.8 won't work)

cd
test -f installed/audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz &&
 mv installed/audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz .
test ! -f audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz &&
 wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/audacity/\
audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz
mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "audacity-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz
cd audacity-src-1.2.6
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
chmod -R u+w .
./configure
make

# Become root to install it
su

# Install it, strip the binary (makes it considerably smaller)
make install
strip /usr/local/bin/audacity
chown -R $USER .

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/audacity-*.tar.*
mv audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz installed/


# Audacity 1.3.3 (beta)
# ==============
# Prerequisites:
# pkg-config
# libsndfile
# libmad
# Ogg/Vorbis
# lame
# FLAC
# wxWidgets' wxGTK >= 2.6.1

cd
test -f installed/audacity-src-1.3.3.tar.gz &&
 mv installed/audacity-src-1.3.3.tar.gz .
test ! -f audacity-src-1.3.3.tar.gz &&
 wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/audacity/\
audacity-src-1.3.3.tar.gz
mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "audacity-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/audacity-src-1.3.3.tar.gz
cd audacity-src-1.3.3-beta
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
chmod -R u+w .
./configure
make

# Become root to install it
su

# Install it, strip the binary (makes it considerably smaller)
make install
strip /usr/local/bin/audacity
chown -R $USER .

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/audacity-*.tar.*
mv audacity-src-1.3.3.tar.gz installed/

# AudacityLogo48x48.xpm in the source directory can be used
# as a desktop icon

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Last updated: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:18:56 -0400 Jason Englander <jason at englanders dot us>