libsoxr error compiling audacity on ubuntu 18.04 [SOLVED]

Programming and Development Compiling Audacity
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I’m trying to build audacity on Ubuntu 18.04 following the steps from this topic “Building Audacity 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 18.04”

configure steps end with this error

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Configuration Complete =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

  Configuration summary :

    libsndfile version : .................. 1.0.24

    Host CPU : ............................ x86_64
    Host Vendor : ......................... unknown
    Host OS : ............................. linux-gnu

    Experimental code : ................... no
    Using ALSA in example programs : ...... no
    External FLAC/Ogg/Vorbis : ............ no

  Tools :

    Compiler is GCC : ..................... yes
    GCC version : ......................... 8

  Installation directories :

    Library directory : ................... /usr/local/lib
    Program directory : ................... /usr/local/bin
    Pkgconfig directory : ................. /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
    HTML docs directory : ................. /usr/local/share/doc/libsndfile1-dev/html

Compiling some other packages against libsndfile may require
the addition of '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig' to the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

=== configuring in lib-src/libsoxr (/home/raz/Downloads/audacity-minsrc-2.3.1/build/lib-src/libsoxr)
configure: running /bin/bash ../../../lib-src/libsoxr/configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local/'  '--with-lib-preference=local system' '--with-ffmpeg=system' '--disable-dynamic-loading' '--with-mod-script-pipe' '--with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config' '--enable-static=yes' '--enable-shared=no' '--disable-programs' '--disable-sqlite' '--disable-external-libs' '--disable-alsa' '--disable-programs' '--disable-programs' 'PORTAUDIO_CFLAGS=-I/home/raz/Downloads/audacity-minsrc-2.3.1/build/../lib-src/portaudio-v19/include' 'PORTAUDIO_LIBS=/home/raz/Downloads/audacity-minsrc-2.3.1/build/../lib-src/portaudio-v19/lib/libportaudio.la' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=../../../lib-src/libsoxr
../../../lib-src/libsoxr/configure: line 17: cmake: command not found
configure: error: ../../../lib-src/libsoxr/configure failed for lib-src/libsoxr
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Looks like you’ve not got cmake installed. See the step by step instructions here: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/building-audacity-2-3-1-on-ubuntu-18-04/52255/1

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I thought I installed everything,
cmake was missing,
build successful now

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Super :slight_smile: Thanks for confirming.
I’ll close this topic as “solved”.