Hi, have a look at
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/alsa-lib To the lower left is a list of links titled "binaries". Those are the readily installable packages which stem from source package "als-lib": https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/alsa-lib Normally you don't build from source package but rather install binary packages. Dan Hitt wrote: > I'm trying to build some software, and one of the long list of items > to install prior to configuring is 'alsa-lib'. So you will probably at least need to do apt-get install libasound2-dev Have a nice day :) Thomas