[ Thanks to Matt D. for
this link. ]
“I’m thrilled to report that the latest beta of Audacity is
indeed, just what the doctor ordered. If you have been an Audacity
fan with your favorite distribution, you likely remember the
headache of doing something as simple as assigning the proper sound
device settings when working with something like a USB headset.
Seriously, with the exception of higher end equipment, who is going
to use that lousy mic jack built into their sound card when I can
enjoy the noise canceling goodness of my USB headset?“The Install. One piece of information that I discovered was
that there was no sign of Audacity in any of my repositories
(probably since it is in Beta). So, off to Google I go to find the
best bet for compiling success. As a rule, I prefer not to deal
with a source like this, as it is a dependency witch hunt 99
percent of the time; however, as luck would have it, I was able to
locate a working package all ready to go, or so it seemed…”