Praat installation

[mahesh]

Hello,
Has anybody managed to get praat working properly on 14.04? Praat is phonetics software included in the packages, site here: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/, which suggests it ought to work, but while it installs there is 1) no sound, and there are 2) no phonetics symbols showing (although I've installed the required fonts).
I did get things working a while ago, on 11.04, but cannot remember the procedure.
Any help would be appreciated.