FYI, I solved the problem building and installing audiolab on fedora. It was operator error: <a href="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/scikits.audiolab/">http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/scikits.audiolab/</a> built without a hitch once I installed two extra packages.<div>
<br><div>I didn&#39;t install &#39;numpy-f2py-1.3.0-7.fc12.x86_64&#39; and only had &#39;numpy-f2py-1.3.0-7.fc12.x86_64&#39; installed. Unfortunately, the error message wasn&#39;t exactly helpful until I realized numpy was only half installed from reading the numpy source file I finally realized it was dying, crypically, in (bug, IMHO). Once that hurdle was cleared, it was obvious I only had &#39;sndfile&#39; binary package installed so I also installed libsndfile-devel-1.0.20-3.fc12.x86_64. With that all in-place, I followed <a href="http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/david/softwares/audiolab/sphinx/installing.html#build" target="_blank">http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/david/softwares/audiolab/sphinx/installing.html#build</a>  and compiled and installed audiolab. (next, trying it out).<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://nielsmayer.com/audiolab-README-NPM.txt">http://nielsmayer.com/audiolab-README-NPM.txt</a> contains a log of my travails (if anybody sees additional things wrong, please let me know...)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Niels<br><a href="http://nielsmayer.com">http://nielsmayer.com</a></div></div></div>