I did my research didn't find any result.... why else would i finally come down to such a long solution!!! and thanks for the direction now this was one answer finally helps :) somebody told me a long time back "you wont be able to get few answers without embarrassing yourself"! i guess i ...

That's what package managers are for. If Linux Mint had a recent deb package of LÖVE in their repositories, you would only have to run "sudo apt-get install love" and all dependencies and everything would be installed automagically. I don't know of a good reason why things can't be self-c...

thelinx wrote:I feel like Linux Mint should have packages for SDL, DevIL and PhysFS. Have you tried searching properly?

ya i did and maybe they do but the "software manager" for mint 9 does not list them! P.S the search option is very vague!!

Isn't mint an ubuntu derivative? Meaning you could've used my ppa? Even if you use the debian edition, there are packages for debian. yeah im dumb but not that dumb ..... the packages for linux mint 9 ( Isadora) had love 0.5.0 for which is more than outdated and there is literally no docuentation o...

I am speechless. How is that number of steps to get one program working on ANY OS acceptable? The thing is, it is not one program. It is a collection of many libraries, plus the LÖVE executable. It's even worse than you can see, since ./configure and make hide the bulk from you. This is the case on...

for installing latest version 0.7.2 on linux mint : -
http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3366

sorry for the lengthy process but this is how it is
il try to make a single package and script (online & offline) for setup and upload it soon

Note the cpp file having missing member ? why would it be so? are others using differnt libs??

ok after a long ( i mean long ) battle with problems and detours i finally got love 0.7.2 to run on my linux mint 9 . So that my friends out there dont have to go through the same ordeal i want to put up this guide :- 1) Download the 0.7.2 source from here : https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads...