Introduction to Audacious
Audacious is an audio player.
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Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages
properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent
stable versions of the book.
Package Information
Additional Downloads
Audacious Dependencies
Required
GTK+-2.24.33 or GTK+-3.24.37 or Qt-5.15.8
Recommended
libarchive-3.6.2
Optional
Valgrind-3.20.0
Recommended (for Plugins)
mpg123-1.31.2, FFmpeg-6.0, and neon-0.32.5 (for online mp3 and ogg radio)
Optional (for Plugins)
ALSA-1.2.7,
cURL-8.0.1, FAAD2-2.10.1, FLAC-1.4.2, LAME-3.100, libxml2-2.10.3, libcdio-2.1.0 (to identify
and play CDs), libnotify-0.8.2, libsndfile-1.2.0,
libvorbis-1.3.7, pipewire-0.3.67,
PulseAudio-16.1, SDL2-2.26.4, ampache-browser, adplug, The Bauer
stereophonic-to-binaural DSP (bs2b) library, FluidSynth,
JACK (requires
libsamplerate-0.2.2), libcue,
libmodplug,
libmms, libopenmpt,
libsidplayfp,
LIRC, sndio, SoX, and WavPack
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/audacious
Installation of Audacious
Installation of the Main Audacious
Program
Install Audacious by running the
following commands (you may wish to change the buildstamp to
another string):
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dgtk3=true \
-Dbuildstamp=BLFS \
-Dlibarchive=true \
.. &&
ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
Installation of Audacious Plugins
Install the required plugins package by issuing the following
commands:
tar -xf ../audacious-plugins-4.3.tar.bz2 &&
cd audacious-plugins-4.3 &&
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup \
--prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dgtk3=true \
.. &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
Command Explanations
-Dbuildstamp=BLFS: This
switch appends the given text to the version string.
-Dgtk3=true: This options sets the
default graphical user interface.
-Dvalgrind=true: The option enables
Valgrind analysis support.