Many thanks.  I'll plunge ahead...

	-- Pete --

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:01:46PM +0000, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> Csound should only need libsndfile to build,
> just install the dev package.
> 
> If you want realtime audio, then you can
> install one or more of the dev packages
> for alsa, jack, portaudio
> 
> For midi, two of the above will give you
> midi, but you can also have it using
>  portmidi, just install the portmidi 
> dev package.
> 
> That should give you enough to get
> going.
> 
> 
> Victor Lazzarini
> Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Philosophy
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
> 
> > On 13 Mar 2019, at 21:54, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@computer.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I decided it was time to get Csound building on my Linux (Mint)
> > machine, and I followed the instructions in BUILD.md on github.
> > 
> > The only step that doesn't work for me is "sudo apt-get build-dep csound".
> > =>"E: Unable to find a source package for csound"
> > 
> > All I have in /etc/apt/sources.list is:
> > 
> > #deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 18.2 _Sonya_ - Release amd64 20170628]/ xenial contrib main non-free
> > deb http://apt.gka.thinkglobally.org/ stretch main
> > deb-src http://apt.gka.thinkglobally.org/ stretch main
> > 
> > so what do I need as well?
> > 
> > (At the cmake stage, I'm told I'm missing libsndfile)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >