Hi Forrest, I had this error and installed the libasound2-dev package to solve it on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine. This provides the header files for asound which is what you are missing. All best, Iain Iain Emsley Software Engineer Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford On 23 Sep 2015, at 21:48, Forrest Curo mailto:treegestalt@gmail.com> wrote: 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 ------------------------- (?) _______________________________________________ chuck-users mailing list chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edumailto:chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users