Hallo Andreas,

    I just posted my solution. It is not quite what I wanted but in the
end it helps.

    Thanks a lot.

    Raúl


Thanks to you all!  Unfortunately my machine works on i386 so I cannot
use an amd64-package.

In the end I upgraded ascii to beowulf with the help of "Tips for
successfully migrating Ascii DE to Beowulf as of 11-08-2018".  It seems
to be working well and I have audacity 2.2.

Thanks again
Raúl



On 08/09/2019 14:56, Andreas Messer wrote:
> Hi Raúl,
>
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:53:41PM +0200, Raul Claro wrote:
>> Dear Dev1ers,
>>
>>     I am using Ascii very satisfactorily and do not want, for the time being
>> anyway, to migrate to a newer system. But I would need to use a higher
>> version of Audacity, not 2.1 any longer but rather 2.2 (or even 2.3) if
>> possible.  Is there anything in Devuan like the backports in Debian, where
>> some later packages were made available for earlier versions of the OS?
>> Where can I find a .deb-package Audacity 2.2.?
> Well, you could be trying to take the audacity 2.2 package from
> Debian (the Devuan package is actually taken unchanged from Debian)
> and install it. But most likely this will pull in lots of other library
> dependencies which can not be satisfied by ascii release. Of course
> these can be manually installed also. But you should not do that
> since your ascii install might easily become messed up by that ending
> in hell when installing/upgrading in future.
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/audacity/
>
> One thing I often do by myself is to take the source package and
> recompile it on my ascii install. In many cases this recompilation
> works using the ascii libraries without updating them to newer versions.
> (Similar thing is done for backports)
>
> A workflow would be roughly like follows (shell):
>
> $ git clone -b debian/2.3.2-2 https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/audacity.git audacity
> $ cd audacity
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc
> $ sudo dpkg -i ../audacity*.deb
>
> You migt be required to install additional packages: git, dpkg-dev. And
> the dpkg-buildpackage command might also request extra packages to be
> installed.
>
> Hope this helps to solve your need.
>
> cheers,
> Andreas