Once installed CLAM, you can compile them with: $ scons clam_prefix=/usr Change /usr to the path CLAM is installed on. Beside the ones needed to compile CLAM you will need a number of extra libraries available such as: * aubio (http://aubio.org) * samplerate (http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC) Debian/Ubuntu (do "sudo apt-get install ") libsamplerate0-dev libaubio-dev