i have been reading the ubuntu unleashed 2008, and anyway i dont know how to install a software different from synaptic and sudo apt-get: it is imposible to find the way to know how to compile the external aplications to ubuntu. lets get a discution about this please! the file im tryng to compile is a file called Open Music from Ircam: it is found in <a href="http://sourceforge.net.org">sourceforge.net.org</a> since the people whe write this ubuntu tutorials didnt know how to explain the peoplle how to use the software and take advantage of linux i think the great task is yours, becouse im one of millions who hate mac of windows but are not an absurd geek.