How to install OpenAL SDK on Ubuntu?

Question

I'm very new to Linux and programming on Linux. I'm trying to install OpenAL SDK on ubuntu ... My best guess is that I will need to download OpenAL from the CVS repo. I found a tutorial: http://www.edenwaith.com/products/pige/tutorials/openal.php

However, when I try to run the terminal command this is what happens:

steven@ubuntu:~$ cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/usr/local/cvs-repository login
Logging in to :pserver:[email protected]:2401/usr/local/cvs-repository
CVS password: 
cvs [login aborted]: connect to opensource.creative.com(124.246.64.74):2401 failed: No route to host

Any tips on how to get the OpenAL SDK installed?

Solution 1

Why do you download from cvs instead of simply running apt-get install libopenal-dev? This automatically downloads OpenAL and its dependency.

Solution 2

sudo apt-get install libopenal-dev

will install OpenAL SDK and get you up and running ... alternatively if you want to compile from source ... the open source fork of openal lives at https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft (do a git log of the code once you do the git clone and you will see these two are source code mirrors )

get current source :

#  git clone git://repo.or.cz/openal-soft.git  # both are same code
git clone [email protected]:kcat/openal-soft.git

cd openal-soft 
cd build
cmake ..
make

if no errors, then install :

sudo make install

totally feel free to post here any errors you encounter - ubuntu 12.04 or newer nicely offers apt-get install for all necessary libraries.

here are some optional upstream libs

sudo apt-get install libsdl-sound1.2-dev
sudo apt-get install  libmyth-dev