Re: [Audacity-quality] Portable version of Audacity
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From: Gale A. <ga...@au...> - 2017-05-26 14:48:19
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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 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Audacity-quality mailing list >>> Aud...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Audacity-quality mailing list >> Aud...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Audacity-quality mailing list > Aud...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality |