[FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

[M R]

Hi Greg:


This is cool, thanks.  See, I'm so not a Linux guy that i didn't even know what Fedora was, till I looked it up just now 😊.


It sounds like it might make sense to include your Fedora install info in a renamed "Linux Install" chapter, along with the updated Ubuntu install info (and any other Linux OS that someone felt like addressing).   All of this would presumably require some degree of screen-shots, in keeping with the rest of the manual--though how much is a matter of personal judgment: I mean maybe in the case of the Fedora install you've detailed there would be literally zero screenshots, if the whole thing really was via command-line.


In any case, probably the way to proceed is for you, Greg, to take initial charge of the current "Ubuntu" chapter, rename it "Linux" or something (by double-clicking on the chapter name, as I just learned from Mick yesterday), and adding in your bit in a separate Fedora section.  Then we wait for someone to step forward who is running Ubuntu, to update that part (unless you happen to be dual-booting with Ubuntu, or running it on a separate machine).


What do you think?


Matt




________________________________
From: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net> on behalf of Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 7:31 AM
To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

On 01/12/2018 05:55 AM, M R wrote:
> Mick:
>
>
> It doesn't actually appear like the specific chapters have their own
> urls -- when I go to http://write.flossmanuals.net/audacity/_edit/ and
Booktype Sign In<http://write.flossmanuals.net/audacity/_edit/>
write.flossmanuals.net
Free Manuals for Freedom



> select a chapter to edit,  the url doesn't change that I can see.  The
> Linux installation chapter is simply entitled "UBUNTU" and its in the
> "Installing" part of the manual. Looking over that chapter just now, I'd
> be very surprised if the Linux install process hadn't been somewhat
> streamlined, but again we need a Linux/Ubuntu user to tell us that.
>

Here is the nitty-gritty on installation for Fedora:

"The simplest way to install Audacity on recent versions of Fedora is to
use the command line. You must be root or have administrative privileges
to install software. There are 2 versions of Audacity for Fedora:

audacity
audacity-freeworld

The latter version includes a variety of libraries which are not part of
the main Fedora repositories, so you would need to first install
rpmfusion-free-release and rpmfusion-nonfree-release. Go to
rpmfusion.org and download the appropriate releases for your version of
Fedora. These represent additions to your repositories. On the command
line, type

sudo dnf -y install rpmfusion-free-release...

Where the ellipsis at the end needs to fit the rest of the particular
version you need. For example in Fedora 26, it would be

rpmfusion-free-release-26.noarch.rpm

Once you have both of these installed, then type

sudo dnf -y install audacity-freeworld

after which the assessment of dependencies, downloads and installations
should proceed automatically.

Once it is installed, your are ready to use it. Simply type 'audacity'
on the command line or find the application under Multimedia with your
application launcher."

Greg
_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
Discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net - you can unsubscribe here
Discuss Info Page - lists.flossmanuals.net<http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net>
lists.flossmanuals.net
Discuss anything about floss manuals - its aims, what it does, how it does it, what it could do, and how it can be better. To see the collection of prior postings to ...



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/attachments/20180112/8ff1c72c/attachment-0001.html>