I think this should work for Sarge too. YMMV
From a fresh bootstrap assuming you already have X and your favorite WM installed:
# apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools jackd
qjackctl alsa-tools-gui scons python2.4 gettext
pkg-config libtool autoconf libjack0.100.0-dev
libxml2 libxml2-dev raptor-utils liblrdf0
liblrdf0-dev libsamplerate0 libsamplerate0-dev
libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-0
libgtk2.0-dev libsndfile1 libsndfile1-dev
libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-dev liblo0
liblo0-dev libboost-dev libasound2-dev unp bzip2
unzip zip
Easiest way to get started:
$ wget http://ardour.org/files/releases/ardour-2.0beta6.2.tar.bz2
$ unp ardour-2.0beta6.2.tar.bz2
$ cd ardour-2.0beta6.2
$ scons
$ su
scons install
No this doesn’t create an ardour2.deb for you but it’s easy to uninstall w/ scons:
$ cd ardour-2.0beta6.2
$ su