Getting Audacity to work

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Saturday 21 July 2007 23:47:47 Tim M wrote:
>    Actually the onboard sound of an intel ICH4 should work just
> find.
>
> > But, in terms of quality: yes, get a "real" card. Any old
> > Soundblaster 64 PCI
> > from the junk market will do. If you need 5.1 or so, have a
> > look at Terratec,
> > fairly good boards for a decent price.
> >
> > You still haven't told me what version of Kubuntu?
>
> I WAS RUNNING! I was running Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. This
> morning I really messed it up. I went to Adept package manager to
> try to reinstall the ALSA. I shouldn't have been working on the
> system when I was upset. I had a couple of people scheduled to
> help me with a job at 7:30 this morning. They called at 7:25
> telling me they were running a little late. Anyway, I purged ALSA
> base and several other ALSA programs. I got up to get coffee and
> when I return I see the screen and want to SCREAM. It was
> dutifully uninstalling my KDE desktop! Why, I have no idea. But
> it was gone. I tried to reinstall them when  I was waiting on my
> help but  Kubuntu will not boot into KDE. I am not sure what to
> do because I have no idea what happened. I need to think about it
> for a while. AND NOT BE SO IMPULSIVE!

Hmm... I lost my KDE desktop several times by uninstalling things I 
don't need.  They took KDE with them on the way out, but the 
solution was simple :

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

Kaj Haulrich.
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