Unzipping the Manual

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The Audacity Manual is included with the current release of the software if you obtain the Windows .exe or Mac OS X .dmg installers. The following instructions are for users who obtained a zip download of Audacity or are on Linux and who want a Manual relating to the current release.
  1. Download the zipped Manual for example to your Desktop or Downloads folder.
  2. Extract the zip contents to a folder called "help". Many extraction tools will do this automatically. If your extraction utility produces only a folder called "manual", create a new folder called "help" and place the extracted "manual" folder inside that new "help" folder.
  3. Place the help folder in the correct location.
    • On Windows or Mac OS X, it should go inside the folder containing the Audacity program. In an Audacity installation, this would usually be under "Program Files" on Windows, or under "Applications" on Mac OS X.
    • On Linux, the "help" folder should usually go in /usr/share/audacity if Audacity was installed from a repository package, or /usr/local/share/audacity if you compiled Audacity from our source code.
      • Note: Root permission will normally be required to modify the /usr directory. Try running a sudo unzip command from a terminal ( for example, sudo unzip ~/Desktop/help.zip -d /usr/share/audacity/help/ ). Alternatively, launch your favorite file manager with root privileges ( for example, sudo nautilus ), unzip by right-clicking the downloaded file then close the terminal and file manager.
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