Compiling The Mana World under Linux - Ubuntu 8.04

Awhile back I wrote a Compiling The Mana World how-to for Ubuntu 9.04 on my main web site. I recently updated the how-to to include Ubuntu 8.04.3 which I recently switched to. It's a little crazy going backwards, but after installing Karmic Koala I found my Lenovo 3000 C100 notebook had developed overheating problems.

Installation of tmw is a bit tricky because of 8.04.3's lack of one package, libguichan-dev. There actually is a libguichan2-dev, which you'd think was a newer version, but it isn't. Compiling against it didn't work for me. I ended up downloading a more recent version of guichan from the guichan site and adding the proper path to the guichan libraries, then doing a ldconfig and recompiling.

Helping a higher level character

You never know when your knowledge will come in handy... For example, I'm a level 68 character, and along with Kamu, currently 76, we hit the snake pit. Kamu is much more powerful than I am... but I got to help him today, by referring him to my instructions on how to compile The Mana World under Ubuntu 9.04.

There are instructions out there, but few as simple as what I've posted I think... Hopefully it really does help him out, because lack of storage really sucks!