“Sndfile not found” error while installing scikits audiolabs

Problem: The following error occurs when installing scikits audiolabs

SndfileInfo:
libraries sndfile not found in /usr/local/lib
libraries sndfile not found in /usr/lib
libraries sndfile not found in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Reason:

The sndfile dev libs are missing (apparently)

Fix

[bash]
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-numpy python-setuptools libsndfile-dev
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
[/bash]

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