simpleaudio Python package installation fails due to required Linux packages

[charleshong3]

Describe the bug
audio.py fails somewhat opaquely when the required C headers are missing. The following Linux packages might be required (mostly just libasound2-dev I think, need to look into it more):

libasound2-plugins alsa-utils libasound2-doc
libasound2 libasound2-data libasound2-dev

To Reproduce
The headers seem to be missing by default on some Linux machine. If they are missing, when you try installing simpleaudio by doing pip install simpleaudio, or you try to use the Shepherd Pipenv, you get an error that looks like this:

  c_src/simpleaudio_alsa.c:8:10: fatal error: alsa/asoundlib.h: No such file or directory
   #include <alsa/asoundlib.h>
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

To Fix
Some documentation that these packages are required should be sufficient.

[kingfischer16]

Just had this problem myself. Installing libasound2-dev fixed the issue for me.