libasound is the alsa library. You need that.

(This is the problem I found with Ubuntu (compared
to what I normally use, Fedora). You have to keep
getting packages that you would expect to be there.
With Fedora most stuff comes in the original
installation.)

Victor
>
> Hi again, and thanks for the help, Victor.
>
> I got it working; however, I ran into a missing dependency
> while running  scons:
> 'cannot find -lasound'.
>
> If anyone's having this problem in Ubuntu, it seems to
> originate from  needing 'libasound-dev', which doesn't
> seem to come natively with Ubuntu  (though libasound
> does). To get it going, all you need to do is run  'sudo
> apt-get install libasound-dev' from the terminal before
> doing scons.
>
> Trying to spare a few headaches...
> Jeremy
>
>
>
>
> Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> > You will need at least
> >
> > 1. libsndfile (www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile)
> > 2. scons (www.scons.org)
> >
> > Then you just have to rename ./custom.py.mkg
> > to custom.py and then run
> >
> > scons
> >
> > Csound will then build in the current directory.
> > To install, run ./install.py, with admin permissions.
> >
> > The Csound command will be installed in /usr/bin.
> >
> > Victor
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm not very familiar with compiling from source in
> >> general, and I'm having a hard time finding
> documentation >> on how to build csound in linux or
> ubuntu. Is there a >> step-by-step list somewhere that can
> (at least somewhat) >> painlessly illustrate how to do
> this for Ubuntu? I've been >> attempting this for a while
> but have yet to get it >> working.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jeremy Flores
> >>
> >> flores1@mit.edu
> >>
> >>
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