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:

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-numpy python-setuptools libsndfile-dev
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev