Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Flacon is an open source application, written in C++ and built by using the Qt libraries, that enables the users to extract individual tracks from big audio files. It has support for the following formats (as input files): WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA) and outputs the following: FLAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, OGG or MP3.
The latest version available is Flacon 1.0.1, which comes with minor changes:
- Improved translators list in the About dialog.
- Translations updated
In this article I will show you how to install Flacon 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Pinguy OS 12.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Peppermint Five and other Ubuntu 14.04/Ubuntu 12.04 derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Flacon 1.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the flacon package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flacon/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install flacon
Optional, to remove flacon, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove flacon