Read carefully the manual and you can't go wrong. I'm the negation of a programmer but I was able to compile from source on ubuntu studio 7.10.
Bye

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From      : "Martin Rodgers" mcr@wildcard.demon.co.uk
To          : csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
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Date      : Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:25:28 +0000
Subject : [Csnd] Re: Csound5 in Ubuntu


> On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Radu Grigorovici wrote:
>
> > Has anyone installed csound5.07 in unbuntu 7.10? Where can I find
> > instructions on how to do that (for linux beginners)?
>
> I'd recommend using the binary installer before going any further.
> http://csound.sourceforge.net/#Linux
>
> While I wouldn't recommend building the code yourself, it worked for me. I've
> never got the Csound5 Linux installer to work properly for me, but I might
> just be doing something unusual. I had to change the installer's default
> paths and probably got wrong!
>
> So I compiled it from source and installed it on my Ubuntu 7.10 machine. This
> probably won't be so easy for a Linux beginner, but the build instructions
> are easy to follow and should work for you. I had to install a few library
> development packages to get all the features I wanted.
>
> These instructions were very helpful for me:
> http://cabel.sourceforge.net/install.html
>
> There's a dead link on the above page for the main build instructions but this
> link works:
> http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/BuildingCsound.html
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> Martin Rodgers http://www.wildcard.demon.co.uk
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