dynamo:~# aptitude show liblame0 Package: liblame0 New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 3.97-0.0 Priority: optional Section: libs Maintainer: Christian Marillat Uncompressed Size: 467k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) Replaces: liblame-dev (<= 3.92-0.0) Description: LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder Lame is a program which can be used to create compressed audio files. (Lame aint MP3 encoder). These audio files can be played back by popular mp3 players such as mpg123. To read from stdin, use "-" for . To write to stdout, use a "-" for . This package contains the dynamic libraries, which provides the encoding functionality of lame.