Hi there, hope someone can help. I've just installed ubuntu, after using Linux Mint for a few years and I'm having problems installing the ladspa or LV2 plugins for audacity. With mint, I just got them from the repository but can't see to find them in Ubuntu. Is it a different repository? I did download them, but can't move them to the correct audacity folder as I seem to remember doing in Windows, as it just keeps saying that it's a read only folder - and when I try to change that it says I can't change the permissions as I'm not the owner...... Can anyone help please? Thank you David

While I don't know the details of installing and extending Audacity on Linux, you often need root privileges to install software. Try going through the installation steps as root.

EDIT: It seems you can also use user-specific plugin folders, if I understand this correctly: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/...ladspa_install. To install the files under /usr, you will definitely need to be root, but try using ~/.ladspa instead.

Hi there, thank you for replying. I don't understand what is meant by 'root' or how to achieve it. I've had a look at the link, but I really don't understand it. Is there a simple way of going about it? Thank you . David

Root is the rough equivalent to the administrator in Windows, i.e. a user account with unlimited power. In Ubuntu, on the command line, you use the sudo command to gain root privileges. As I pointed out, if you copy the plugin files to ~/.ladspa, i.e. the .ladspa folder in your home directory, you don't need to become root.

Alternatively, share the details of what you do. I might be able to tell you how to do it differently.