Hello, recently Audacity has stop working on my Purism laptop. All I get is this message to send a report. But the app won’t open. OS is updated, and I have deleted and reinstalled Audacity several time with no change?
I am still a newbie and don’t know is being sent or why?
What am I missing?
Thank you in advance.
Launch it via console to may see the HANG reason.
:~$ audacity
When I just type in 
audacity, is responds with
command not found.
I tried to install tenacity, and that won’t launch. No idea what the issue is there either.
I was seriously considering returning the laptop to stock settings and starting from scratch as I have installed and uninstalled dozens of things to try them out and now I have a good idea of what I actually use and like.
Wouldn’t mind tenacity, but as I said, can’t get to to load, and installed it via flatpak from the included software app.
At least it was a try. They want to extend the support to more systems than Audacity did, so I thought there was a chance that it works.
Yes thank you, I figured it was incomaptable, although now I can’t figure out how to uninstall LOL and it keeps updating. 
And I had thought any software in the Software stock app would work, but I was incorrect about that assumption.
You installed it via software center? Did you try to remove it via command line?
Sorry, my mistake, I removed tenacity via the software center tonight. It wouldn’t uninstalled previously.
I guess I need to look for something to replace audacity. It is a paid app for anything apple, so I won’t even using on my ancient macbook.
it Audacity installed via evil-flatpak? i guess u are gaming on 2 ecosystem app-center which could caused a conflict.
No idea what that means. I thought everything installed through the Software app is flatpak? Is this bad?
Should I uninstall and install through a different method? Odd because it has worked for years this way for me and nothing has changed.
Had two more system updates this morning, which is unusual, and tried an AppImage download and no idea why, but this time it worked?
I don’t know why there was an issue with the install via the Software app included in the PurismOS, but this has solved it, at least for now LOL.
Correction, I can run the app by double clicking on the AppImage file, but it does not install and show as an app in my apps listing? Seems to work this way, but doesn’t seem to be installed? What am I missing?
Thank you all for your assistance. I will let you know if there are any other issues. Although I notice that when I listen to an uploaded music track via Audacity, the volume is FAR lower than if I listen through my music player. Any ideas as to why that may be?
Appimages are not technically “installed” into the operating system on it’s own. The application exists in the file itself.
Some operating systems have a program built into the OS to automatically add a .desktop file to create a shortcut, but it sounds like PureOS may not be one of them.
Here is an article I found in a quick search that explains more about how AppImage works: How to Work with AppImages Under Debian – Natural Born Coder
PS: You may want to do some research on the different packages. PureOS is based on Debian, so “native” packages are .deb. Then the other major ones are AppImages, Flatpaks, and Snaps. They all have strengths and weaknesses, but there are not really any wrong answers.
