How to install Audacity 2.3.3 on a Chromebook


Today we are looking at how to install Audacity 2.3.3 (or the latest nightly build) on a Chromebook! We created a video for a visual guide as well as an audio guide.  We hope that you will find it helpful.  Please find the instructions below to install Audacity, it is the same as those which we used in the video.

We used Flatpak to install Audacity on a Chromebook in this tutorial.

Update:  We made a revised video, where we show how to fix most graphical issues which you might experience and show how to record your microphone as well, look here

Please take note that with the release of Chrome OS 90,  the location of Linux Apps has been changed in the Chromebook’s settings.  Have a look at this tutorial, to see how to turn on Linux apps and then continue with the installation tutorial.

Update: with the release of Chrome OS 96, the Linux container on a Chromebook has been upgraded to a newer version.  Because of this, we need to run one additional command for the application to work, we added it to the list of commands.

Instructions:
1) sudo apt update
2) sudo apt install flatpak
3) sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
4) sudo flatpak install flathub org.audacityteam.Audacity
5) sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/bwrap && sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/bwrap

If you experience any graphical errors, please apply this change.

Official Site:
https://www.audacityteam.org/

We also created another tutorial to install the latest version of Audacity. the windows, version.  If you have a Chromebook with an Intel or AMD CPU and the Google Play Store, look here

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