sfxr (http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html) is a cool utility for generating sound effects. To compile it on Ubuntu you need to install a few packages to resolve dependencies.
Dependencies are: build-essential libasound2-dev libasound2-plugins libsdl-dev libgtk2.0-dev
Taken from the comments in http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-posted-on-some-of-work-i-want-to.html.
