What a mess I have done with SoX !I have solved my problem, at least the most urgent one, that is, getting back to my older stable version of sox v14.0.1. The reason why it behaved so strangely was that I had TWO sox in my system, the one I had attempted to install from sources, and the one I had reinstalled from the Lenny repository. A 'find / | grep sox' showed me that I had
a '/usr/bin/sox' file dated 25 may 2008, 31032 bytes long and a /usr/local/bin sox file dated 29 jan 2010, 117570 bytes longI removed the newer file, and now, a call of 'sox' does work as it did before I started fooling around.
Sorry for the trouble. I will later on make further attempts at installing the newer version from testing/sid, as Tong recommends
Bernard wrote:
Bernard wrote:I just made another discovery. The 'man' file for sox that I presently have on my system, is the one that belongs to sox v14.3, not the manfile belonging to v14.0.1, where there was no mention of any -b option. This knowledge reminds me that, prior to making an attempt to install from 'testing' repositories, I had tried to install from a source file that I had downloaded from sox.sourceforge.net. At first sight, all had seemed to go allright, there was no error in 'make', nor in 'make install', and some sox functions seemed to work, other did not. This is when I decided to try the Debian way with testing ; I thought that the new install would go over the old one. This mismanagement may be part of the problem I now have.Bernard wrote:I was mistaking in writing that. True: apt-cache search did not show any libsox.so.1 file, but I found one using 'find' :Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:I have just done this. The install went OK, so did the re-install of Lenny's sox. But, when trying to call 'sox -h' (or any call to sox), I get this :You'll have to get libsox0 installed before Lenny's sox will work.bd@new-host:~$ sox -hsox: error while loading shared libraries: libsox.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directorybd@new-host:~$ libsox.so.1 does not exist on my system, as/usr/local/lib/libsox.so.1 is there. Still any call to 'sox' sends this same reply :sox: error while loading shared libraries: libsox.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryBut then, how shall I manually remove as much as possible of what remains of that sox installed from source, as well as what remains of the v14.3 installed from 'testing' ?