As great as they are, binary packages have a lot of limitations that can only be overcome by compiling a program from its source code. We’re going to take a stock, unmodified Ubuntu 8.04 installation and install the Audacity sound editor, enabling some extra features along the way. Read it here

Building software from source – that’s a bit old-school, isn’t it? Who wants to wrestle with the command line, hunting down dependencies and coaxing the GCC compiler into running properly? Well, it does sound like a strange thing to do in this world of binary packages and online repositories.