Though LeoCAD could be availlable in Debian soon, I wanted to install it now.
Compiling LeoCAD on Debian based systems as Ubuntu is easy as described on The official Wiki page. But there are some easy steps missing.
Lets. start: Open a shell window (xterm, Terminal, rxvt).
At first we need some software and libraries:
sudo apt-get install subversion libgtk2.0-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev zlib1g-dev
Now, we can download leocad directly from the source tree. First we want to find out, which versions we can find:
svn ls svn ls http://svn.leocad.org/tags
Pick the latest tag. In our case it is “leocad-0.76”. We download it using
svn co http://svn.leocad.org/tags/leocad-0.76
After that we can compile it withmake config && make
and install it with
sudo make install
After that you need to download the tile set from Google code. Assuming it is named “pieces-5243b.zip” and located in your home folder at ~/Download, we install it using the commands:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/leocad
cd /usr/local/share/leocad
sudo unzip ~/Download/pieces-5243b.zip
Now you are ready to run leocad:leocad