After much effort I have finally managed to build and compile Audacity plug ins on the Aspire One. Getting Audacity to install is pretty simple (apart from some GTK bugs) but I needed the effects plug ins to make it all worthwhile.
I still have the supplied Fedora based Linux distribution running managed to use the yum installer entirely (apart from the swh plug ins which seem to be available via tarball only).
Steps to get there are numerous but the key was to install the lib-fftw development libraries before trying to build the swh plug ins.
So now I get gverb in Audacity on the train without lugging a 3kg laptop.
Steps were something like
- Remove default acer desktop (Googlable)
- Enable right click menu (Googlable)
- Install Audacity via yum installer (sudo yum install Audacity)
- Install lib-ffwtw-devel package via yum (yum install etc…)
- Download swh plug ins
- Compile and install swh plugs ins and away (./configure; make; make test; make install)