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Audacity app for chromebook9/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are like me, then you do appreciate Chromebooks for their budget, power, battery life, and general portability. Speaking of Chromebooks, it has been a little over two years now since Project Crostini was introduced. Microsoft, with Windows 10, introduced Linux support, and Google did the same thing with Project Crostini, which brought Linux support to Chromebooks. It is, therefore, interesting to note how much these big corporations are trying to rope in this community of renegades back to their platform. They go at it alone, or with a community of developers they trust. These are users who want to sever ties with big corporations like Microsoft, Google, and Apple. I do have Checker on this exact Chromebook! Everytime I download Audacity from Linux it says "This file type is not supported.Linux has traditionally been for the rebels and the adventurous. ![]() Redrun wrote: ↑ December 17th, 2022, 8:54 am You might not be able to start it from ChromeOS directly (since it's only the Linux part that would recognize this file as a program), but can launch from the terminal each time. AppImage file that Audacity makes available:Īccording to these instructions, you'll need to give the file permission to run as a program, which they show how to do with chmod. You can either install a (probably older) version of Audacity from the Debian repositories with apt-get install audacity, or you can try to run the. deb package thay can be installed with dpkg, but Audacity doesn't have that option on their site. Once enabled, the Linux terminal will have access to any Debian packages. If not, and if you haven't already, you'll need to turn on the Linux features before you can run Audacity: You mention that you already have Checker, is that on this same Chromebook? ![]() I can help search for directions or errors, but unfortunately can't test, myself. Caveat, I've not done this before, but it seems doable. ![]()
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