Problems installing Audacity.

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Chud : 06/02/06 10:22 AM : Incident created -   Problems installing Audacity. I've recently installed Mandriva 2006 from a DVD supplied with Linux Magazine and wish to install Audacity. I could not find an Audacity RPM for Mandriva so I downloaded a gzipped source audacity-src-1.2.4b.tar.gz which by default ended up in the Documents folder. I unzipped this into a new folder called temp (not really knowing where it should go officially) According to the Readme file the next step is ./configure, however, when I tried to do this I received the following message:- "error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH" I am now well out of my depth and do not know how to get around this error. Also I cannot find any help for "make" or "make install" - do I need to be in a particular directory to issue these commands, and do they require any parameters or a filename? Also which folder should the executable audacity program be created in, and do I have to specify this anywhere? Any assitance would be greatfully received.
Linegod_7611 : 07/02/06 12:28 AM : Reply received -   I'm sure it was on the DVD, but you would have better luck installing it from the official RPM: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/Mandriva/official/2006.0/i586/media/main/audacity-1.2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm I would highly recommend that you visit http://easyurpmi.zarb.org , and configure your system to use an official online repository. The additional jpackage and plf repositories will also be of great benefit. --------- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this incident.
Chud : 07/02/06 08:41 AM : Incident closed -   Being very much a newbie to Linux I joined the Mandriva Club mainly for this type of support, and am very pleased with the most helpful response in not only answering my question but also pointing me in the right direction to obviate future problems. Thanks!

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