Solved Audacity binary package no more (13.2 onwards)?

[graemeg]

Over the weekend, I upgrade by FreeBSD system from 13.1 to 13.2 and just now, noticed that I don't have audio/audacity installed any more. I tried to do a pkg install audacity, but there seems to be no binary package for it - yet it is in the ports system. Anyone know why there isn't a binary package any more?

 

[SirDice]

Anyone know why there isn't a binary package any more?

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[StrangerHereMyself]

Would the fork 'Tenacity' work for your purposes? The build instructions for FreeBSD are here: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/src/branch/main/BUILDING.md

 

[SirDice]

Or switch to the latest package branch, it seems to build fine there.

 

[graemeg]

Thank you, using the latest package branch worked well.

For those, like me, that didn't know how to do that, here is a good resource on how to do it:

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