Re: [Audacity-quality] Portable version of Audacity

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

On 26 May 2017 at 01:11, Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...> wrote:
> On 26 May 2017 at 00:37, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote:
>> The Manual believes "Portable Settings" is cross-platform supported:
>> http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/preferences.html#portable .
>>
>> This worked on Ubuntu 14.04 last time I tried it. Having self-compiled
>> Audacity, I added a "Portable Settings" folder to usr/local/bin/.
>
> No problem with "Portable Settings", I use that all the time to keep
> my dev version separate from my production version.
>
> I'm guessing that a normal Linux build won't be portable because it is
> normally built against shared system libraries.
> I guess it is 'possible' to make a portable version of Audacity for
> Linux by building against local libraries and configuring the library
> paths appropriately, but I don't know how easy / hard it is to do
> that, or if anyone has done so.

How different is that from AppImage http://appimage.org/ and Snaps
https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy  ?


Gale


>> Cliff wrote:
>>> Well, Steve, I was wrong. It starts just fine the first time, but if I change
>>> the temp directory to be on the USB stick it will not start. Is there a
>>> space requirement that maybe isn't being satisfied? I only have 2 GB
>>> available on the stick.
>>
>> No space requirement at all. I would guess the stick is formatted with FAT
>> or ExFAT so you have run into:
>> http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446 .
>>
>>
>>
>> Gale
>>
>>
>> On 25 May 2017 at 13:42, Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...> wrote:
>>> On Windows, Audacity can easily be run as a "portable" application by
>>> extracting the ZIP package onto a USB drive and adding a "Portable
>>> Settings" folder (and optionally configuring the temp folder
>>> location).
>>>
>>> What about on Mac and Linux?
>>> I'm guessing that something similar can be done on Mac, but not Linux.
>>> Anyone know? Anyone tried?
>>>
>>> Steve
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