To work with monkey’s audio (ape) files you need the “mac” command line tool. This software isn’t available in the Ubuntu repositories so you will need to either compile mac yourself, or alternatively install it from a .deb file.

Installing mac from a .deb file

I’ve put a .deb file for the mac software here (this is for 386 systems). Use it to install mac when you do not want to compile from source. It was compiled on a Kubuntu 6.10 system (works fine with Kubuntu/ Ubuntu 7.04). Save the file by right-clicking on the link and choosing “Save target as” or “Save as”. To install, open a terminal window, navigate to the directory containing the downloaded file, then enter the following:

sudo dpkg -i mac-3.99-u4_b3-1_i386.deb

To confirm the install went ok type “mac” in the terminal window - you should get a listing of mac’s usage details.

[Note: RareWares provides monkey's audio software for Debian users.]

Compiling mac from the source code

You need to install the development tools required to compile a program from source:

sudo aptitude install build-essential

Note that “nasm” (a dependency of mac) must also be installed before attempting to compile mac:

sudo aptitude install nasm

Click here to download the latest version (3.99) of the mac source code from the author’s web page.

Open a terminal window and uncompress the source code, and navigate into the source directory:

tar -zxvf mac-3.99-u4-b5.tar.gz
cd mac-3.99-u4-b5.tar.gz

Configure, make and install the source:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Confirm the install went ok by typing “mac” in the terminal window (should get a listing of mac’s usage details).

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