Upgrading to version 14.3 of SoX

[aaelghat]

I'd like to upgrade to version 14.3 of SoX (I'd like to make use of a new effect in 14.3 called "Voice Activity Detector" to clean-up voicemails.

My PIAF system currently has 14.01. What's the easiest way to upgrade? Thanks in advance.

 

[aaelghat]

For what it was worth, I did try running update-scripts, update-fixes, and yum update sox.

But, it said no packages marked for Update. I guess the update isn't in the repository (I don't know much about how yum works). Is there a way to update to version 14.3 of SoX?

Thanks.

 

[darmock]

1. Log into the cli as root
2. cd /usr/src
3. rm -rvf sox
4. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sox/sox/14.3.0/sox-14.3.0.tar.gz?use_mirror=voxel
5. tar -xvzf sox-14.3.0.tar.gz
6. rm -vf sox-14.3.0.tar.gz
7. mv sox-* sox
8. cd sox
9. ./configure
10. make && make install

enjoy!


Tom

seriously welcome to linux in all its arcane glory. Remember any changes you do can make your system stop working! However this is a relatively benign program so it should work fine. I have not tested this on a running system as of yet so you are the guinea pig. These are the same steps that were done during your original install which was using sox 14.0.1 Once you report back I will change the pbx install to use this version. I am not sure I will be adding this to the update-fixes or update-source however.

 

[aaelghat]

Thanks for the instructions!

With step 3, I got a rm: cannot remove `sox': Is a directory

Which was fine, I removed it manually. With step 4 the message board screwed up the URL but I figured that out from the actual link (not what was displayed).

When i got to the end, I saw it had worked perfectly. Thank you very much!!!

 

[darmock]

I just downloaded it try going to

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/14.3.0/sox-14.3.0.tar.gz/download

and downloading it by hand

point 3 should have been rm -rvf sox

Tom