How to install OcenAudio 3.3.10 on Linux Mint 18.3

To install OcenAudio 3.3.10 on Linux Mint 18.3

OcenAudio is an open source free audio editor application and a nice audacity alternative. We cant compare this application with audacity comes with more advanced features. But OcenAudio is just usable for basic audio auditing tasks. It is completely lightweight application and its available for major using operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.

install OcenAudio 3.3.10

First, you need to update the system repository by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                        
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Hit:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                  
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
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Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [685 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [306 kB]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe i386 Packages [281 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [595 kB]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [550 kB]                            
Fetched 4,661 kB in 7s (641 kB/s)                                                                                 
Reading package lists... Done

Once it is done, you shall download the package by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # wget http://www.ocenaudio.com/downloads/index.php/ocenaudio_debian64.deb
--2018-03-08 17:51:06--  http://www.ocenaudio.com/downloads/index.php/ocenaudio_debian64.deb
Resolving www.ocenaudio.com (www.ocenaudio.com)... 46.101.149.147, 107.170.112.160, 2a03:b0c0:3:d0::86:9001
Connecting to www.ocenaudio.com (www.ocenaudio.com)|46.101.149.147|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11549332 (11M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ ocenaudio_debian64.deb’ 

ocenaudio_debian64.deb       100%[=============================================> ]  11.01M  1.06MB/s    in 11s     

2018-03-08 17:51:17 (1024 KB/s) - ‘ ocenaudio_debian64.deb’  saved [11549332/11549332]

You shall now install the package by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # dpkg -i ocenaudio_debian64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package ocenaudio.
(Reading database ... 219622 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack ocenaudio_debian64.deb ...
Unpacking ocenaudio (3.3.10-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ocenaudio:
 ocenaudio depends on libqt5concurrent5 (> = 5.3.2)  however:
  Package libqt5concurrent5 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package ocenaudio (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:

You may find error due to dependencies, so run the following command to sort them out.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libqt5concurrent5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libqt5concurrent5
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 278 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
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Fetched 24.3 kB in 1s (13.8 kB/s)      
Selecting previously unselected package libqt5concurrent5:amd64.
(Reading database ... 219675 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libqt5concurrent5_5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libqt5concurrent5:amd64 (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Setting up libqt5concurrent5:amd64 (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5) ...
Setting up ocenaudio (3.3.10-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

Once it is done, you shall run the following command to confirm the installation.

linuxhelp ~ # dpkg -l ocenaudio 
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                   Version          Architecture     Description
+++-======================-================-================-==================================================
ii  ocenaudio              3.3.10-1         amd64            Ocenaudio is a fast, cross-platform audio editor.

Once it is installed, you shall open it from your Linux Mint search field.

Type OcenAudio in the search field.

Click on the application icon that appears.

The application now appears on your screen.

You can check the version of OcenAudio.

With this, the method to install OcenAudio 3.3.10 on Linux Mint 18.3 comes to an end.