Problem with dependency when installing Audacity 1.2.6 on Ubuntu

The Other Guy · 02-01-2008, 06:25 PM

I'm trying to install Audacity 1.2.6 on my dual-boot Ubuntu 7.04 system. I downloaded the package for the Feisty distro from Ubuntu itself. Here is the filename of the package I'm trying to install:

audacity_1.2.6-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb

I double-clicked on it, and the package installer immediately gave me this warning:

"Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libjack0.100.0-0"

What happened? Can someone tell me what I need to do here?

pljvaldez · 02-01-2008, 06:28 PM

Try installing using the package manager (synaptic I believe) while you are online. The problem is that audacity needs libjack, but you only downloaded audacity.

synaptic will handle the dependencies for you. So when program foo needs program bar to function, it will download both foo and bar and install bar first, then install foo.

If you like command line better, go online and then do sudo aptitude update and then sudo aptitude install audacity.

The Other Guy · 02-02-2008, 12:11 PM

Ah, that's got it. I just typed sudo aptitude update and then went back to the package. It was ready to handle the dependencies then. Thanks!