Here are the steps I take to install Darkice. Darkice compiles with OSS but not ALSA for me. Start with a fresh install of 10.04 then: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential Download darkice-1,1.tar.gz and lame-3.99.tar.gz untar both files --> tar -xzvf lame-3.99.tar.gz and tar -xzvf darkice-1.1.tar.gz Go into both subdirectories, lame first, and: ./configure make sudo make install before ,/configure with Darkice, move the lame libraries from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib During the ./configure step for Darkice, at the end is the message that ALSA was not in /usr Here is the result of the ./configure on Darkice: root@LiveNatureSongs003:/home/teratech/Downloads/darkice-1.1# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking errno.h usability... yes checking errno.h presence... yes checking for errno.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking stdio.h usability... yes checking stdio.h presence... yes checking for stdio.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking signal.h usability... yes checking signal.h presence... yes checking for signal.h... yes checking time.h usability... yes checking time.h presence... yes checking for time.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking sys/wait.h usability... yes checking sys/wait.h presence... yes checking for sys/wait.h... yes checking math.h usability... yes checking math.h presence... yes checking for math.h... yes checking netdb.h usability... yes checking netdb.h presence... yes checking for netdb.h... yes checking netinet/in.h usability... yes checking netinet/in.h presence... yes checking for netinet/in.h... yes checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes checking sys/socket.h usability... yes checking sys/socket.h presence... yes checking for sys/socket.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes checking sched.h usability... yes checking sched.h presence... yes checking for sched.h... yes checking pthread.h usability... yes checking pthread.h presence... yes checking for pthread.h... yes checking termios.h usability... yes checking termios.h presence... yes checking for termios.h... yes checking sys/soundcard.h usability... yes checking sys/soundcard.h presence... yes checking for sys/soundcard.h... yes checking sys/audio.h usability... no checking sys/audio.h presence... no checking for sys/audio.h... no checking sys/audioio.h usability... no checking sys/audioio.h presence... no checking for sys/audioio.h... no checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... (cached) yes checking for pid_t... yes checking for size_t... yes checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for socket in -lsocket... no checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... yes checking for sched_getscheduler in -lrt... yes checking for getaddrinfo... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for pthread-config... no checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no checking whether pthreads work without any flags... yes checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no checking for cc_r... gcc checking for lame library at /usr ... found at /usr checking for vorbis libraries at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without Ogg Vorbis checking for faac library at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without faac checking for aacplus library at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without aacplus checking for twolame library at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without twolame checking for alsa libraries at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without ALSA support checking for pulseaudio libraries at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without PULSEAUDIO support checking for jack libraries at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without JACK support checking for samplerate libraries at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building libsamplerate support checking for MSG_NOSIGNAL... yes checking for sched_getscheduler... yes checking for sched_getparam... yes not compiling in debug mode configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating man/Makefile config.status: creating src/config.h config.status: src/config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands root@LiveNatureSongs003:/home/teratech/Downloads/darkice-1.1# I have tried moving the ALSA libraries to /usr and specifying to compile Darkice with ALSA and neither one of these actions enables ALSA to compile with Darkice for me. Is there something more I need to do with ALSA before I try the Darkice with ALSA compile? Can someone please let me know what I am missing? Thanks, Joel Goodwin