I know that stuff can lurk in /etc and other places, but wouldn’t know what to look for.While using Audacity, if you feel stuck at some point, you don’t need to worry. Am I perhaps missing some setting to tell audacity what to use? I don’t see any entry for this in either preferences or the help menus. 76 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on LinuxMint 17).

I notice that the help is delivered via a browser. The audacity behaviour was exactly the same as before, nothing happens when I click on the help menu entry. I deleted the help folder, and tried the alternative route listed above, sudo unzip audacity-manual-2.0.4.zip -d /usr/share/audacity/, which achieved in one step what had taken several before, a help folder owned by root with rwxr-xr-x permissions in /usr/share/audacity. No lock up of the program, but no help appears. Now trying to access help, I do not get an error message, but I get nothing else either. The owner of the files was root, as for the nyquist and plug-ins folders. I noticed the permissions on help were different to the existing folders, so I sudo chmod -R to rwxr-xr-x. Trying to access help from within the program again gave the same error message as before.

I then sudo cp this to /usr/share/audacity, where there are already nyquist and plug-ins folders, which looked promising. I downloaded the help manual, and extracted to a help/manual/… structure in downloads. I am an XP refugee, still barely above total noob on Linux, floundering my way forward, so I am sure the problem is some configuration issue.Īfter apt-get install audacity, I tried help, but it said it wasn’t configured and told me to download. I have Audacity 2.0.5 on Linux Mint 17 Qiana. I’ve ended up here via google as I can’t get Audacity manual to work within the program.

Audacity help manual