Re: Audacity error on xubuntu 16.04

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 02:49:45PM -0700, stan wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:06:22 +0000
> Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>   
> > It is installed:-
> > 
> >     root@t430# dpkg -l | grep soundtouch
> >     ii  libsoundtouch-dev:amd64                     1.9.2-2
> > amd64        Development files for the sound stretching library ii
> > libsoundtouch1:amd64                        1.9.2-2 amd64
> > Sound stretching library
> > 
> > However as far as I can see the above packages don't install the file
> > that audacity is looking for.
> > 
> > Strangely I have another xubuntu 16.04 system where audacity works
> > perfectly OK and that doesn't have libSoundTouch.so.0 either.
> > 
> > It seems that audacity on this system (where it doesn't work) is
> > looking for libSoundTouch.so.0 and 16.04 Ubuntu has
> > libSoundTouch.so.1.
> 
> That is strange.  I wonder if they were compiled with slightly
> different constraints, so one wants >= .0, and one wants == .0 .
> 
> If you are feeling adventurous you could create a symbolic link to the
> so.1 file for the so.0 file. (with su or root)
> 
> e.g.  ln -s /usr/lib64/libSoundTouch.so.1 /usr/lib64/libSoundTouch.so.0
> 
Yes, that's fixed it!

> The paths might be different on your system.  The reason that is a
> little risky is that the .1 version might have a different api than
> the .0 version.  But the difference might be completely irrelevant to
> audacity, because it might not use the part that changed.
> 
> For what it's worth, the audacity here is version 2.1.3, and it uses
> the .1 version of the SoundTouch library without problem.
> 
On my systems the files are in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, so I just
did:-


    root@t430# cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
    root@t430# ln -s libSoundTouch.so.1 libSoundTouch.so.0

That doesnt exist on my other 16.04 system where audacity works fine
though, very odd.

-- 
Chris Green

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