[PlanetCCRMA] problem updating audacity

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 13:54, al goldstein wrote:
> I am trying ccrma code for the first time. My first exercise is to update
> audacity from 1.20-pre3 to 1.2.2. (I'm using audacity as an rpm because
> I was unable to build uwWindows due to a dependency hell in GTK.)
> If I run "apt-get install audacity" the message comes back audacity is
> already the latest version.

What is the origin of the previous audacity rpm? Is 1.20-pre3 a typo? If
not, then 1.20 > 1.2 for certain, so from rpm's point of view you do
have a newer version. 

Do an "rpm -q audacity" to see what is complete current version you
have. 

> And "apt-get update audacity" doesn't work
> either. Looking at the freshmeat site it doesn't appear there is stuff for
> 1.2.2. Am I correct in this assessment? I'm using RH-9 with a custom kernel
> 2.4.20. Thanks!

-- Fernando