How to Install Audacity 2.2.0 via PPA on Ubuntu 17.04, 18.04

   Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
Compilation instructions for Audacity are provided in the source code:

• Windows: win\compile.txt
• macOS: mac/Build.txt
• GNU/Linux: INSTALL.

Audacity 2.2.0 Changelog:

• Four supplied user interface themes, and customizability of themes for advanced users.
• Playback of MIDI files (fully automatic on Windows; requires cooperating software synthesizer programs on macOs or Linux; special thanks to Audacity co-founder Roger Dannenberg and new contributor “pokechu22”)
• Better organized menus
• Help link buttons in many dialogs lead to the relevant manual pages
• 198 bugs/annoyances in 2.1.3 fixed, most importantly:
• Improved recovery from full file system errors; in case of recording, Audacity 2.2.0 will preserve as much of the recorded data as possible
• Thorough update of the manual with new images, more hover texts, and more cross-references.
• Complete support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and 10.13 (High Sierra)

Installation instructions:

    Run the following commands in Terminal to install Audacity 2.2.0, via PPA, on Ubuntu:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/audacity $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install audacity

 Optional, to remove Audacity, do:

     If you want to uninstall Audacity from Ubuntu Systems, run the following commands in Terminal:

$ sudo apt-get remove --autoremove audacity audacity-data