Audacity?

[Yuneek]

I'm trying to install Audacity but I'm unsure which download to get... can someone please help?

Yuneek

[AndyGreen]

As root, create a file

/etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo

which contains

[atrpms-stable]
name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Then run

rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

yum install audacity

[Yuneek]

Originally Posted by AndyGreen

As root, create a file

/etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo

which contains

[atrpms-stable]
name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

How would I make this file? A text editor? What do I save it as (what file extension)?

I'm very new to Linux, sorry.

Yuneek

[Yuneek]

Oh, and how do I log in as root?

Yuneek

[PeTzZz]

Keep in mind that some repositories are not compatible to each other and leads to conflicts. At the moment compatable groups are Livna and Fedora Extras (Fedora.us) as one group and FreshRPMS, DAG, Newrpms, Dries and ATrpms as the other group. You can read more about it here.

If you have used only default repositories with yum then I suggest to replace your yum.conf with the yum.conf found here in The Fedora FAQ. Then you can just run

yum install audacity

That yum.conf has extras and livna repositories enabled and doesn't mix repositories that conflicts with each other.

If you created /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo then I suggest to delete it as ATrpms is not compatible with extras and livna. Then if you installed already audacity from ATrpms do 'yum remove audacity' and then 'yum install audacity'. Then yum installs Audacity from extras or livna.

Mixing repositories just lead to conflicts. Extras are enabled by default in Fedora and if you add ATrpms that conflicts with it, it is not good.

[AndyGreen]

Sounds ugly. I saw some flaming on the fedora-devel-list some months ago but I did not really pay attention: thanks for pointing it out.

Extras does not seem to be enabled by default on an FC3 install.

Using the repo files seems to be a better method than a monolithic yum.conf; IIRC a clean FC3 does generate repo files and an almost empty yum.conf?

Yuneek:

su -

then give the root password. Since apparently atrpms is evil, and creating the file is a problem, you might want to follow PeTzZz' advice instead of mine.

[Yuneek]

Where would I find the original yum.conf so I can replace it?

[AndyGreen]

/etc/yum.conf

[gbaker]

Originally Posted by Yuneek

Oh, and how do I log in as root?

You need to know your root password (you should have set this when you installed Linux).

Just type "su -" (without the quotes of course). You'll be prompted for the password.

su is an abbreviation for super user, which is root.
The trailing minus sign indicates that the root environment should be loaded (which will set your PATH appropriately for root).

[PeTzZz]

Just follow instructions found here and then do yum install audacity.

More specifically:

• Open the terminal and type
  

  su -

  Then type the root password that you specified when you installed Fedora.
• Then type
  

  nautilus

  Then the file manager will come up with root privilegs. Go to /etc/ and replace yum.conf with the yum.conf found on the site I specified before.
• Close Nautilus (the file manager).
• In terminal type
  

  yum install audacity

It is all so if you don't use Fedora with root user, but with the created user. It is not good to use Fedora with root user for everyday doings.

[PeTzZz]

Originally Posted by AndyGreen

Extras does not seem to be enabled by default on an FC3 install.

Sorry, I thought extras are enabled by default.

Originally Posted by AndyGreen

Using the repo files seems to be a better method than a monolithic yum.conf; IIRC a clean FC3 does generate repo files and an almost empty yum.conf?

Yes, by default Fedora has almost clean yum.conf. I don't know what is the very best method, but as it is said in the default yum.conf it does not matter which method to use. The functionality is the same and it is easier to put repositories only to yum.conf. It is much easier to understand to newbies too. Therefore it is also so in The Fedora FAQ.

[AndyGreen]

It seems that much config is moving towards .d/ directories because it is cleaner to make automated insertion and removal. Therefore I think that will also be the way forward for yum.

Rereading your explanation of repo compatibility, I am a bit worried then, you say that Extras is in fact fedora.us, but Dag in your link says that fedora.us is evil. Therefore if extras is going to be delivered in future as part of Fedora, this is really trying to say that Dag is then evil if you want to be compatible with "Fedora"/Extras? If this is the case it is a pretty untenable situation!

[PeTzZz]

Originally Posted by AndyGreen

you say that Extras is in fact fedora.us, but Dag in your link says that fedora.us is evil. Therefore if extras is going to be delivered in future as part of Fedora, this is really trying to say that Dag is then evil if you want to be compatible with "Fedora"/Extras? If this is the case it is a pretty untenable situation!

At the moment there are two compatible groups and it is not known what the future brings to us. We must hope that they all become compatible with each other one day. At the moment we just have to choose one of those groups.

Actually it is not good to discuss it future more in this thread.

[btechman2002]

You could use WINE and the Windows version of Audacity.

I tried it and it works.

[PeTzZz]

Originally Posted by btechman2002

You could use WINE and the Windows version of Audacity.

I tried it and it works.

It is always better to use Linux versions or alternatives if they are available.