[FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

[M R]

Maren:


Ok -- do you want to go ahead and make those changes for the Ubuntu part?  I think it's pretty much whoever has the OS can be the expert here 😊.  I don't run any linux so I can't test out any of those installs myself.  Don't know if you're familiar with Audacity itself, but you don't really need to be for the install part.


As a Windows person, I stopped using the command line for just about anything many years ago.  We can blame Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.


Matt


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Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

Wow, yes. That chapter is weird, and looks rather outdated. The normal
way would be to visit the software center or whatever they call it (I
think it has a shopping bag as an icon, and is available right on the
default desktop), enter the search term 'audacity', then select it from
the list and click on 'install'... Looks a lot fancier than synaptic
(which is still available, though).

Or to just open a terminal and type the one-liner
sudo apt-get install audacity
then enter your password, when asked for it.

With Ubuntu 16.04, this will currently give you Audacity 2.1.2-1, not
sure what the most current version is, but I'm sure there's also a ppa,
or a flatpak, or a snap. Or all of those (and they will have the most
recent version, and might even be available in the software center by
default - I'm on Linux Mint, so things are a tiny bit different, but I
regularly start Ubuntu in a virtual machine for trying stuff out).

Maren

Am 13.01.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Gregory Pittman:
> Ok, I've edited that chapter. I don't know enough about Ubuntu or all
> this apt-get stuff to edit the Ubuntu part. It seems to be reasonably
> accurate, though rather verbose. I would presume that an Ubuntu user is
> not going to have to rely on this book on Audacity to learn about apt-get.
>
> Greg
>
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> On 01/13/2018 03:53 AM, Mick Chesterman wrote:
>> Greg,
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>> Thanks
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>> Mick
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