On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 06:04:26PM -0700, David Jaffe wrote: > Newbie question... > > I downloaded the alsa-utils source and it says to run ./configure. But no > such file exists. And if I go to aplay and type “make aplay” it can’t find > a file called “aconfig.h”, which is presumably written by > ./configure. What am I missing? I think that you need to run autoconf on the configure.ac file which you should have: it is there in the git directory. Perhaps read man autoconf ? The INSTALL file does indeed say run ./configure without explaining that you need autoconf if ./configure is not present. ael