Bill,
If there is some way to get those items working without using Debian
Multimedia repos, that would be great. Also I wish that I could use a
genuinely free version of audacity, but thus far the various forks
don't do the job.
OMG, nothing simplier than that!!
All 3 mentioned are available in the official Debian-distro (stable,
testing as well as sid) with all their dependencies. If Devuan does not
contain them, kick that distro into the waste-bucket.
And your complaint about the non-availability of a genuinely free
version of audacity is not valid for the Debian-download!
Anything more?
Peter.