3 Installation

Note: the wrappers link with the alsasound library (from the alsa-lib package) and need the ALSA headers for compilation. Verify that you have /usr/lib/libasound.so and /usr/include/alsa (or similar paths) before building.

On Debian (and probably Ubuntu), make sure you have libasound2-dev installed.

Naturally you also need to use a kernel with proper ALSA support. This is the default in Linux kernel 2.6 and later. If you are using kernel version 2.4 you may need to install the ALSA patches yourself - although most distributions ship with ALSA kernels.

To install, execute the following:

$ python setup.py build

And then as root:

# python setup.py install