tisdag 24 november 2015

Fix audacity startup bug - on ubuntu 15.10

For a while ago audacity stopped working. It hung on startup, and i tried to fix the problem in a lot of different ways.

I searched for the problem online and realised that there was some problem with the version that was distributed with ubuntu, that it was built to the wrong version of wx-widgets.

One obvious solution (for a linux user) was to try to compile the application from source. But for some reason i ended up with strange compilation errors. I tried for the code for version 2.0.6, 2.1.1 or 2.1.2 but all ended with some dependencies missing that was not possible to install from the ubuntu repositories.

The final solution that i found thas this repository that i found online. This is a newer compiled version than the one that i tried

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacity

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Then audacity finaly started...