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Bug 1648545 - The version of Audacity in Fedora is not released for Linux and has known bugs
Summary: The version of Audacity in Fedora is not released for Linux and has known bugs
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: audacity
Version: 29
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Timms
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-10 13:36 UTC by Roman C
Modified: 2019-05-03 03:41 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: audacity-2.3.1-1.fc30 audacity-2.3.1-1.fc28 audacity-2.3.1-1.fc29
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Last Closed: 2019-05-02 03:33:08 UTC
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Description Roman C 2018-11-10 13:36:31 UTC
Currently Fedora packages Audacity 2.3.0. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/linux/ says:

> The current release version for Linux is Audacity 2.2.2
>
> Please note that Audacity 2.3.0 for Linux is considered ‘experimental’ and may crash. In particular, real-time preview effects will crash when applied.

I just ran into this issue myself: https://sourceforge.net/p/audacity/mailman/audacity-devel/thread/CABp83eAm%2BoyjQrWpthyVTvAu_6ei7uTdzPY05ebBq9uA6T3NiQ%40mail.gmail.com/#msg36463570

Please consider downgrading the Fedora Audacity version to 2.2.2 until 2.3.1 is released.

Comment 1 Gergely Gombos 2018-11-15 04:13:04 UTC
I agree. Audacity 2.3 freezes a lot, unsuitable for production.
I used this 2.2.2 build: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1146037
It can be easily installed for F29.

Comment 2 Jason Tibbitts 2019-04-10 19:46:04 UTC
Just installed audacity on F29 and found it unusable due to crashes.

Version 2.3.1 was released in March and supposedly fixes these issues.  I forked so I could do local builds and send a PR, but it turns out that the fosshub URLs are broken or at least spectool -g doesn't work.

The source on github works but has a different name.  The manual is in a separate project (https://github.com/audacity/audacity-manual) and has no releases, so the best you can do is check out a commit hash.

In any case, I was able to get a functional package built for F29 and it didn't crash in the few minutes I played with it.  I will clean up my work a bit and send a PR.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2019-04-19 13:17:33 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-5c0e418b01

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2019-04-19 13:17:41 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-6e4baba530

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-04-19 13:17:50 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc30 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-5592e42ee7

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-04-19 15:54:42 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-5592e42ee7

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-04-19 18:16:09 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-6e4baba530

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-04-19 20:36:01 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-5c0e418b01

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-05-02 03:33:08 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-05-03 01:35:34 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-05-03 03:41:24 UTC
audacity-2.3.1-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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