Comment 6 for bug 1464913

still a problem in 2022:

sudo apt install portaudio19-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libfltk1.1 python3-alsaaudio python3-cffi python3-jack-client python3-pycparser ubuntustudio-look
  ubuntustudio-lowlatency-settings ubuntustudio-performance-tweaks zita-njbridge
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  jackd1 jackd1-firewire libjack-dev libjack0
Suggested packages:
  jack-tools meterbridge portaudio19-doc
Recommended packages:
  qjackctl
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  jackd jackd2 jackd2-firewire libjack-jackd2-0 qjackctl studio-controls
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  jackd1 jackd1-firewire libjack-dev libjack0 portaudio19-dev
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