I've just tried the instructions for compiling/installing chuck 1.3; and these worked exactly as given, on a confuser running ubuntu 15.04.

On another, with ubuntu 14.04 -- I find the compilation crashing for lack of "asoundlib.h"

Assuming that this is part of the libsndfile listed as a dependency on your download page, I followed the link to http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/#Download and installed that.

However, back in the .... chuck/src directory, I'm still getting:
~/chuck-1.3.5.1/src$ make linux-alsa
g++ -I. -Ilo -O3 -D__LINUX_ALSA__ -D__PLATFORM_LINUX__ -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -D__CK_SNDFILE_NATIVE__ -c RtAudio/RtAudio.cpp -o RtAudio/RtAudio.o
RtAudio/RtAudio.cpp:5267:28: fatal error: alsa/asoundlib.h: No such file or directory
#include <alsa/asoundlib.h>
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