Problem:
The following error occurs when installing scikits audiolabs
SndfileInfo:
libraries sndfile not found in /usr/local/lib
libraries sndfile not found in /usr/lib
libraries sndfile not found in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
Reason:
The sndfile dev libs are missing (apparently)
Fix:
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-numpy python-setuptools libsndfile-dev
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev