How to install software

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Or better yet, use your package manager to install PortAudio v19)
>
> I found this while installing some software. It has the normal
> ./configuere, make, make install.
> I did all but the make install and saw that top line. How do you do
> that and why is it better? Can you do it with anything you are
> installing?
> Thanks all.

There just advising to do a search with apt-get, aptitude, synaptic,
etc.  before compiling.  I think portaudio is already available (in
Hardy):

aptitude -F "%p %V %v" search portaudio

libportaudio-dev                                           18.1-6     <none>
libportaudio-doc                                           18.1-6     <none>
libportaudio-ocaml                                         0.1.1-2ubu <none>
libportaudio-ocaml-dev                                     0.1.1-2ubu <none>
libportaudio0                                              18.1-6     18.1-6
libportaudio2                                              19+svn2007 <none>
libportaudiocpp0                                           19+svn2007 <none>
portaudio19-dev                                            19+svn2007 <none>
portaudio19-doc                                            19+svn2007 <none>

So libportaudio2 should be version 19...

Chris