audacity woes

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FatherBusa · Post by **FatherBusa** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:03 am

I'm having no end of trouble with audacity. To start with, I'm not sure I entirely understand the whole deal with audacity and wxGTK, but I can at least get it to work by doing something like:

USE="wxgtk1 -unicode" emerge wxGTK

followed by

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge audacity

But then the program doesn't really work right. If I try to select the Preferences menu, it segfaults. And the menu next to microphone volume slider won't work. Needless to say, it won't do what I really want to do; namely, record voice from the microphone. I can hit record, and I see the thing start rolling, but it just puts up a flat line.

Anyone got this thing working? I think I'm probably not doing the emerge correctly (I assume there's some configuration that will allow the stable version to work).

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:55 am

A couple of things.. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge audacity is not reccommended
see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1124085
You should put 'media-sound/audacity ~x86' into /etc/portage/package.keywords.

The other thing I would suggest is to do a 'revdep-rebuild -p' before anything else.
And if my system were segfaulting, I would probably do an 'emerge -ep system'.

I have audacity working with no problems on a P4 system - these are my versions:

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media-sound/audacity-1.2.4
HAS THESE DEPENDENCIES:
        * app-arch/zip-2.3-r4 (W)
        * media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b (W)
        * media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b (W)
        * media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.11 (W)
        * media-libs/libvorbis-1.1.0 (W)
        * media-sound/lame-3.96.1 (W)
        * sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 (S)
        * x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 (W)

best of luck

FatherBusa · Post by **FatherBusa** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:17 am

Cintra wrote: I have audacity working with no problems on a P4 system - these are my versions:

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media-sound/audacity-1.2.4
HAS THESE DEPENDENCIES:
        * app-arch/zip-2.3-r4 (W)
        * media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b (W)
        * media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b (W)
        * media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.11 (W)
        * media-libs/libvorbis-1.1.0 (W)
        * media-sound/lame-3.96.1 (W)
        * sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 (S)
        * x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 (W)

best of luck

Okay, but how did you emerge wxGTK? Did you use any particular USE flags?

I ran emerge -e world pretty recently during the recent upgrade of gcc, and revdep-rebuild doesn't report any problems with any of the above files.

Also, where did you get that version of audacity? The latest (unstable) version in portage is 1.2.3-r1 . . .

Thanks for the reply . . .

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:14 am

FatherBusa
Both audacity and wxGTK are in my package.keywords.

I see I updated audacity last to 1.2.4 on the 4th Dec according to 'genlop -lu'. No special USE flags for either..

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 # emerge -vp wxGTK
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2-r1  +X -debug -doc -gnome -joystick -odbc +opengl +sdl +unicode 0 kB 
# emerge -vp audacity
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/audacity-1.2.4  +encode +gtk2 +mad +oggvorbis 0 kB [1]

but my USE flags in make.conf are:

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USE="a52 aac cddb cdparanoia dvd dvdr dvdread hddtemp javascript live lm_sensors mmx network nptl ppds real rtc sse sse2 theora unicode win32codecs -avi -fortran -gnome -gtk"

ah.. I see now, my copy of the 1.2.4 ebuild http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=73887 came from the audacity bug page http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113948 so I saved a copy of that ebuild in /usr/local/portage/media-sound/audacity opened a konsole there, and did

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ebuild audacity-1.2.4.ebuild digest

sorry, I had forgotten about that.. there was a lot of unmerging and emerging of both wxGTKs & audacity recently in connection with my getting CastPodder to work.
mvh

FatherBusa · Post by **FatherBusa** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:45 pm

Tusen takk, Cintra.

I will try this later this evening.

If I get it working, I think I'm going to wikify it. I see a lot of problems with emerging Audacity in the forums . . .

egberts · Post by **egberts** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:28 am

Appears to me that audacity 1.2.1 is missing a wxGTK dependency.

'emerge audacity' did NOT pull in wxGTK package.

StarDragon · Post by **StarDragon** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:37 am

Cintra wrote:A couple of things.. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge audacity is not reccommended
see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1124085
You should put 'media-sound/audacity ~x86' into /etc/portage/package.keywords.

The other thing I would suggest is to do a 'revdep-rebuild -p' before anything else.
And if my system were segfaulting, I would probably do an 'emerge -ep system'.

I have audacity working with no problems on a P4 system - these are my versions:
Code: Select all
media-sound/audacity-1.2.4
HAS THESE DEPENDENCIES:
        * app-arch/zip-2.3-r4 (W)
        * media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b (W)
        * media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b (W)
        * media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.11 (W)
        * media-libs/libvorbis-1.1.0 (W)
        * media-sound/lame-3.96.1 (W)
        * sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 (S)
        * x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 (W)
best of luck

Thanks dude! Using the unstable packages works on my box...