Can't install Audacity - Ubuntu 14.04

[henrique8]

Hello there,

First, it is important to say that I am totally new to ubuntu.

Well, I got Audacity installed and working correctly for a couple of weeks. Suddenly, it started not to work anymore, and I couldnt import nor record anything.
So I`ve decided to remove it, using

sudo apt-get purge audacity

Then, I've tried to install it again, using

sudo apt-get install audacity

And this is what I got:


Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
audacity : Depends: audacity-data (= 2.0.5-1ubuntu3) but 2.0.5-1ubuntu3.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

then I've tried to install it via software center, and got the following:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

audacity: Depends: audacity-data (= 2.0.5-1ubuntu3) but 2.0.5-1ubuntu3.2 is to be installed
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15) but 2.19-0ubuntu6.5 is to be installed
Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but 1:4.9.1-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.40.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) but 2.24.23-0ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
Depends: libportaudio2 (>= 19+svn20101113-2~) but 19+svn20140130-1 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0) but 4.8.2-19ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libwxbase2.8-0 (>= 2.8.12.1) but 2.8.12.1+dfsg-2ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libwxgtk2.8-0 (>= 2.8.12.1) but 2.8.12.1+dfsg-2ubuntu2 is to be installed

Any ideas on how to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!

Henrique

[ubfan1]

You probably need to run
sudo apt-get update
before installing the audacity again.

[Bucky Ball]

Welcome. Try this:


sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Report any and all errors.

[bapoumba]

How did you install audacity in the first place ?
Are you using any repositories outside the regular ubuntu ones (ppas for ex) ?

In addition, and before you run Bucky's commands, please post the output to :

cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list
ls -la /etc/apt/sources.list.d
tail -v -n +1 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

[mc4man]

If you haven't squared away - you have disabled the trusty-updates repo which has audacity @ 2.0.5-1ubuntu3.2
So open Software & Updates > Updates tab > enable the 1st 2 entries (trusty-security, trusty-updates) > reload sources & try again.

[henrique8]

Guys, it worked!
I've executed Bucky's commands and it went fine without any errors. Thanks man :)

ubfan1, I've tried updating before, but it didn't work for the first time. Apparently, I got some dependencies problems and couldn't install some packages, and what Bucky suggested resolved the issue. I've read about those commands and found a nice explanation about the dist-upgrade in the link below, which helped me to understand.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/194651/why-use-apt-get-upgrade-instead-of-apt-get-dist-upgrade

bapoumba, I know the problem was already solved, but here the outputs you asked. can you tell what are they for?


cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list
1 # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20150218.1)]/ trusty main restricted
2
3 # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
4 # newer versions of the distribution.
5 deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
6 deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
7
8 ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
9 ## distribution.
10
11 ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
12 ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
13 ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
14 deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
15 deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
16
17 ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
18 ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
19 ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
20 ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
21 ## security team.
22 deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
23 deb-src http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
24
25 ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
26 ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
27 ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
28 ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
29 ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
30
31
32 ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
33 ## 'partner' repository.
34 ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
35 ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
36 deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
37 deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
38
39 ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
40 ## developers who want to ship their latest software.
41 deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main
42 deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main


ls -la /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Abr 13 18:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Abr 14 20:45 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 Abr 13 18:41 google-talkplugin.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150 Abr 2 00:04 webupd8team-tor-browser-trusty.list


tail -v -n +1 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
==> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-talkplugin.list <==
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main

==> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-tor-browser-trusty.list <==
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/tor-browser/ubuntu trusty main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/tor-browser/ubuntu trusty main

Thank you all for the help!

[Bucky Ball]

Great news. Could you please mark the thread as solved by following the second link in my signature. This will not close the thread so discussion can continue. Just helps future travelers to find a fix.

Good luck and enjoy the OS and the learning curve. ;)

[bapoumba]

And please enable the security and updates repos as mc4man said in post #5, thanks.