# Build older versions of Csound?

**URL:** <https://forum.csound.com/t/build-older-versions-of-csound/505>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.csound.com/t/build-older-versions-of-csound/505 "2021-09-29T15:45:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![genell](https://forum.csound.com/user_avatar/forum.csound.com/genell/32/28_2.png) [@genell](https://forum.csound.com/u/genell)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.csound.com/t/build-older-versions-of-csound/505/1 "2021-09-29T15:45:33Z")

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Hi!  
I would, for various reasons, like to build a specific version of Csound5 for which I have a source code tarball, on a new-ish linux system.  
The old version used the scons build system, and I have not been able to recreate all the required dependencies to build it on a recent Debian system.  
Is there some clever way to achieve this?

Regards,  
Anders