Install Audacity 2.1.0 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04. Audacity is a free software for recording and editing sounds in Linux Ubuntu Systems. The Audacity audio recorder/music player for Linux is also available for Windows and Mac OS X. Audacity has easy-to-use interface, translated into many languages.
Audacity can be used to record live audio, computer playback and convert records into digital recordings. It can also be used to edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis format sound files to mix sounds together.
Main features of the Audacity 2.1.0 (Audio Editor & Recorder) are:
- Recording (from a microphone or mixer)
- Import/export of WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC, MP3 (via LAME encoder) Ogg Vorbis files
- Advanced editing (cut, copy, paste, delete commands with unlimited “Undo” and “Redo”, multitrack mixing)
- Digital effects (change the pitch, remove background noises, alter frequencies, remove vocals, create voice-overs for podcasts etc.)
- Plug-ins (support for LADSPA, Nyquist, VST Audio Unit, including VAMP analysis plug-ins).
Download Audacity 2.1.0
Installation packages for Audacity on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems are provided by individual distributions. The following distributions maintain regularly updated Audacity packages:
- Fedora
- Gentoo
- SuSE/Open SUSE
- Ubuntu:
- packages.ubuntu release packages.
- daily PPA packages built from Audacity SVN development code. Note: These should not be used as your production version of Audacity.
- rpmseek for legacy Audacity packages.
Install Audacity 2.1.0
Open the terminal and run the following command to install Audacity:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audacity-team/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacity
To uninstall and remove Audacity from Ubuntu systems, run the following command:
sudo apt-get remove audacity