Audacity

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About

Audacity is a free digital audio editor that runs on the Linux and other operating systems. The source code for Audacity is released under the GNU General Public License. The graphical user interface for the editor has been produced using the wxWidgets library.

Some of Audacity's features include:

• Importing and exporting WAV, MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, and other file formats
• Recording and playing sounds
• Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with unlimited Undo)
• Multi-track mixing
• Digital effects and effect plug-ins
• Amplitude envelope editing
• Noise removal
• Support for multichannel modes with sampling rates up to 96 kHz with 24 bits per sample
• The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed, in order to synch it with video, run for the right length of time, etc.

This page contains instructions for Setting up Audacity on SUSE Linux.

Audacity uses some packages (wxWigets 2.4) that are not standard on SUSE Linux.

Instructions for a New Install

Install Required Supporting Packages

Packages are available from the Packman repository. The packages needed are:

• wxGTK-common
• wxGTK2
• audacity

All of which are available for SUSE Linux 10.0.

Install Audacity

1. Open YaST > Software > Software Management
2. Select to install the following packages:
   • wxGTK
   • wxGTK-compat
   • wxGTK-devel
3. After installing the wxGTK packages, download and install the RPMs for Audacity from the URLs above, and apply them in the following order:
   1. wxGTK-common-2.4.2-12.i386.rpm
   2. wxGTK2-2.4.2-12.i386.rpm
   3. audacity-1.2.3-5.i386.rpm

Audacity should install okay this way. Some steps may not be necessary, so please refine the above process as you see fit. The launcher icon for Audacity is in the system menu under Applications > Multimedia > More Programs.

See also

• Multimedia
• Podcasting
• Mediacasting

External links

• The Audacity homepage on Sourceforge
• Editing audio in Linux:Audacity