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This is an 1-line script that downloads and compiles Minetest and minetest_game.

Just paste this in a terminal, type your password when it's required – this assumes you use sudo to use administrator commands (which is the default in Ubuntu/Mint), the password is required only once:

If you don't know which one to use, use the non-portable one: the portable one is meant to be put on an USB drive or similar to play on several PCs with only one installation.

NOTE: This script may not work immediately on Ubuntu 16.10. You may need to swap libpng and libjpeg for more recent versions, which have different package names. Consider the Minetest AppImage as a simpler way to run latest Minetest versions, that doesn't require root rights as well.

For non-portable installs (puts user data in ~/.minetest):


For "portable" installs (puts user data in program data directory):


You can update your existing (portable or not) Minetest installation by typing this after opening a terminal, provided you haven't moved the directory:


This automatically runs Minetest when done and tells you the Minetest binary can be found in ~/minetest/bin.

VERY NICE!!!

Cool thing. Gonna try it :)

nice ;)

btw, will this take the latest version?

2232 wrote:and how do you uninstall it??

Just remove the minetest folder.

Ragnar wrote:btw, will this take the latest version?

Seems so.

Yes, I just tried Calinous version out, it installs 0.4.4. It makes a 'minetest'-folder without serial numbers.

edit: typo

Minor update about the "echo" command, which tells the user they can put mods in ~/.minetest/mods/minetest.

you forgot -DRUN_IN_PLACE

rubenwardy wrote:you forgot -DRUN_IN_PLACE

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sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg8-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev;git clone git://github.com/celeron55/minetest.git;cd minetest/games;git clone git://github.com/celeron55/minetest_game.git;cd ..;cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1;cd src;make -j2;cd ../bin;./minetest;echo -e "\n\nYou can run Minetest again by double-clicking "minetest" in the "bin" folder of the "minetest" folder in your home folder.\nYou can install mods in ~/.minetest/mods/minetest, too."

This is intended: this one-line script is not intended for "portable" installs. The user data goes to ~/.minetest, which means the whole minetest folder is cleaner.

Beautiful
Yesterday I switched to debian wheezy, just to try.
But it was hard to install minetest through the package "deb" for ubuntu (missing dependencies, etc.).
Instead it seems to me that this script is perfect for debian, I would suggest you add it to the download page! so also those who use debian can be installed easily!

Update: Freetype and gettext are now installed and used (for translations and a more complete character set).

I've found it easier to use local git repositories with branches for packaging purposes. When I want to do a build, I merge the branches which I want (not necessarily committing the result) and then “debuild binary”. dpkg takes care of the rest.

As for missing dependencies, install using apt-get or aptitude or something similar (and, optionally, mark them as automatically installed).

Minetest repos have moved to https://github.com/minetest

Edited.

This makes me sad. *sad*

I assume you dont have common in the games folder.

Edited the script so that it downloads the "common" mods.

Using the latest Debian testing. Had to add libsm-dev to my apt-get line to get it to compile,
otherwise you get a libSM.so error.

You could also include libcurl4-openssl-dev in there if you so choose.

also git-core is considered an obsolete package, and they just call it git now.

can you do this for mac too? maybe both intel and ppc version.

ch98 wrote:can you do this for mac too? maybe both intel and ppc version.

Nope.

Would cmake work for every compiled program via linux? dis/ubuntu

keyxmakerx wrote:Would cmake work for every compiled program via linux? dis/ubuntu

No, cmake only works for programs that have a special CMake file

This works for Fedora distros: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=5211

add for nef features:
for ubuntu precise - libcurl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev libleveldb-dev
for ubuntu raring - libcurl4-openssl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev libleveldb-dev

nice! thanks!

my chain is:
git clone git://github.com/minetest/minetest.git
cd minetest
cd games
git clone git://github.com/minetest/minetest_game.git
git pull
cd ..
git pull
cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1
make -j2
cd bin
./minetest
#11 lines to happiness

going to try it out.

I am happy to say that this worked pefrectly in Elementary OS Linux as well! Fixing the problem of the repos always being terribly outdated.

Though I found that is did not work under Raspbian, it gave the following error:





Normally the Raspberry Pi is more than capable of running 3D games, including Minecraft. Though I like Minetest a whole lot better than Minecraft. If anyone know's what I should do here, please tell me!