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title: Install Audacity on Debian using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Audacity for on Debian - Audacity is the world's
  most popular audio editing and recording app
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/audacity/debian
---

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# Install Audacity on **Debian**

# Audacity

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/audacity/debian#install)

#### Audacity is the world's most popular audio editing and recording app

Audacity® is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows,
Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into
many languages.

You can use Audacity to:

* Record live audio
* Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
* Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files
* Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together
* Change the speed or pitch of a recording
* Apply a wide range of other effects to audio recordings

This snap also includes OpenVINO™ AI plugins for music separation, noise suppression,
music generation and continuation, transcription, and super resolution. These plugins
can only be run on Intel hardware (CPU, GPU, and NPU) and a user must be in the render
Unix group in order to run on Intel accelerators (GPU and NPU). To ease the installation
of the AI models, the snap also includes a model management command that can be run using:

sudo audacity.fetch-models

For Intel NPU support, make sure to also run the following prior to running Audacity:

sudo snap install intel-npu-driver
sudo snap connect audacity:npu-libs intel-npu-driver:npu-libs

### Package name

* audacity

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* 5 September 2026 - latest/stable
* 6 September 2026 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [www.audacityteam.org](https://www.audacityteam.org/ "https://www.audacityteam.org/")

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### Contact

* [github.com/snapcrafters/audacity/issues](https://github.com/snapcrafters/audacity/issues "https://github.com/snapcrafters/audacity/issues")

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### Source code

* [github.com/snapcrafters/audacity](https://github.com/snapcrafters/audacity "https://github.com/snapcrafters/audacity")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/snapcrafters/audacity/issues](https://github.com/snapcrafters/audacity/issues "https://github.com/snapcrafters/audacity/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/audacity/debian#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Debian and install Audacity

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:

```
sudo snap install snapd
```

### Install Audacity

To install Audacity, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install audacity
```

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