You need scons[1] to build the frei0r plugins. Building all frei0r plugins is triggered by: $ scons Use the followind command to install the plugins at the systems default location. You'll need to be for that. $ scons install You need to set the "instdir" property to install the plugins at a different location $ scons instdir=$HOME/.frei0r-1/lib install [1] http://www.scons.org