The Easy Way: SuperCollider for Ubuntu can be installed from the SuperCollider PPA at Launchpad. See also this blog entry about it. (It's also reported to work with the amd64 chroot setup [ link ]) The Manual Way: based on mails from chrisandMatt: EITHER – from a base install ofubuntu studio (8.04) (which has all the low latency and realtime stuff by default, and also contains loads of other good