Micheal,
Sorry that I'm back sooner than expected. What is aclocal?
I looked in the Synaptic package manager and I don't see it.
Checked out revision 10480.
ilan@ilan-laptop:~$ cd rosegarden
ilan@ilan-laptop:~/rosegarden$ sh ./bootstrap.sh
./bootstrap.sh: 2: aclocal: not found
ilan@ilan-laptop:~/rosegarden$