On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:46:59PM -0600, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > >On 11/28/2011 12:34 AM, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > >>I tried every combination of repo and AUR versions of Audacity, FFMPEG, > >>and LibAV libraries, and I was not able to find a way to give Audacity > >>the file named libavformat.so.52 which it wants to much. So far as I > >>have been able to tell, all of the versions of FFMPEG and LibAV either > >>don't compile or produce libavformat.so.53, which the available versions > >>of Audacity won't touch. > >> > >>Anyone have a solution? I would try Ubuntu deb's, but I am concerned > >>with introducing more conflicts instead of eliminating just one! > > > >have you actually tried to recompile audacity? > > > > Yes, via AUR. The AUR version recompiled fine, but in the > preferences when run, it says that it is compiled without FFMPEG > support. > > J.E.B. > Hey, you could have just pacman -S abs and executed the abs script. Then you could have copied the directory in /var/abs/extra/audacity to the build folder in your ~, which is preferably in ~/abs. In said directory there's a PKGBUILD which lets you rebuild the exact [extra] package yourself. Source [1]. cheers! mar77i [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS
