Trying to install Audacity with Adept

[mgscott]

I launch Adept, browse to the Multimedia category and I can see Audacity but cannot select it.
When I click on the box it won't change to be 'X'.
I tried downloading the .deb packages and installing via dpkg, but ended up in 'dependency hell'
I'm having Red Hat flashbacks!!
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[SheeEttin]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

Try choosing "Adept Manager" instead of "Adept Installer". It's much more functional and shows all the packages available. (Or so it seems, I'm told some have found instances in which packages are not displayed.)

Anyway, if you can't find Adept (Manager), hit Alt+F2 and type "kdesu adept_manager". From here, just search for "Audacity" and choose to install it. Packages on which it depends will be installed automatically.

[Princey]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

You could also install via the command line. Just fireup konsole and type in

sudo apt-get install audacity

The beauty about using the command line is that any errors or dependency problems, you get to know right away and with a suggestion on how to fix it.

[mgscott]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

Okay, so I see Audacity and see about 3 different ways to request install, but none have any effect.
No matter what I try, the "Apply changes" button stays grey and it looks like I can also see a list of additional packages required, but those can't be requested either.

[mgscott]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

mscott@path:~$ sudo apt-get install audacity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package audacity is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package audacity has no installation candidate

[Princey]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

udo apt-get install audacity
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
audacity is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

From this, it's seen that I already had it installed. That means there's a problem somewhere. What does

sudo apt-get install -f

yield?

[mgscott]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

What does

sudo apt-get install -f

yield?

mscott@path:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic linux-headers-2.6.20-15 libmad0
libmyspell3c2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Princey]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

Good, we're getting somewhere. Did you do what was asked? I.E

sudo apt-get remove

Just for the fun of it, I removed audacity

sudo apt-get remove audacity
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libportaudio2 libwxgtk2.4-1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
audacity
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 6377kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 161579 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing audacity ...

and installed via konsole just to see if I'd get any errors, nothing. Worked like a charm here.

sudo apt-get install audacity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ladspa-plugin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
audacity
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2165kB of archives.
After unpacking 6377kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe audacity 1.2.6-0ubuntu1 [2165kB]
Fetched 2165kB in 1m35s (22.8kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package audacity.
(Reading database ... 161501 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking audacity (from .../audacity_1.2.6-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up audacity (1.2.6-0ubuntu1) ...

Please let me know what happened after you removed the packages that adept suggested and tried installing audacity like I instructed.

[mgscott]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

Good, we're getting somewhere. Did you do what was asked? I.E

sudo apt-get remove

I was reluctant, but gave autoremove a chance to do it's thing.

mscott@path:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic linux-headers-2.6.20-15 libmad0
libmyspell3c2
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libmad0 libmyspell3c2 linux-headers-2.6.20-15
linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 65.8MB disk space will be freed.
...

Now I get a clean bill of health with -f

mscott@path:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

But still no joy...

mscott@path:~$ sudo apt-get install audacity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package audacity is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package audacity has no installation candidate

[SheeEttin]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

You know what I bet?
You need to enable the "universe" and "multiverse" repositories (at least).

I guess you could follow the instructions here, or you could just do this:
In Adept, go to Adept (the menu, where File usually is) > Manage Repositories. Check at least the "universe" and "multiverse" lines.

You may also be interested in the Medibuntu repository. Quick 'n dirty instructions here.

EDIT: Oh, and don't forget to update your package lists after.

[Princey]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

I was about to ask him to post his sources list here as I figure some of the respositories may be disabled.

sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Copy and paste the list out. Looks like multiverse and universe may be turned off.

[gregb49]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

Could it be that you are trying to install Audacity in Feisty? I am having no success here and, having followed all the advice here, ie checking the sources are not commented out, and adding new sources, I can at last get apt-get to see audacity. However, I am getting the following

t3-c3@t3-c3-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install audacity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 audacity: Depends: libwxbase2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.1.5ubuntu6) but it is not installable
      Depends: libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.1.5ubuntu6) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

I think there is probably some problem in that installing Audacity will break something? Is that right? Greg

[Princey]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

Hmm, I'm running Feisty X86_64 here and audacity works pretty fine here and installed without any extra effort. First time I ran it, it worked. I installed it via add/remove programs.

If you have unmet or broken dependences, it may mean that you'd first have to fix them. Try

sudo apt-get update -f

Another suggestion once this is cleared is to use

sudo aptitude install audacity

instead of

sudo apt-get install audacity

[gregb49]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

Thanks, but I still got problems, plus more on top, however I have succeeded in getting audacity installed. The steps I took were

1) reverting to the original sources.list (didn't work and still gave problems)
2) Replaced my sources.list entries with those at http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty making no changes whatsoever. (I've no idea if this is sensible or not!)
3) ran

sudo apt-get update -f

(thank you)
4) ran

sudo apt-get install audacity

The result appeared to be a lot of downloads and package updates, but it worked.
I'm using feisty 32bit i386 on a via nehemiah platform. Greg
(Now maybe I can get some of those other packages to work that I used to use before this upgrade)

[Princey]

Re: Trying to install Audacity with Adept

Glad you got it sorted, Gregb49. Feel free to ask if you run into more problems.