Installing Love on Ubuntu 12.10

[Partysofa]

I'm having issues installing Love on my laptop which runs Ubuntu 12.10. I've been googling it for a while, but it still doesn't seem to install properly. I tried all the different versions you can download from the website, but to no use. Anyone here that can help me out so I can develop on the go?

[T-Bone]

You could try the version available in the Ubuntu Software Center. If that fails, try the PPA.

[andrew.207]

I've never used Ubuntu before, but I've learned if all else fails just compile it from source.

Download from this link: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloa ... src.tar.gz

Open a terminal window at the file location, and type

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tar zxf love-0.8.0-linux-src.tar.gz

Now change into the directory that that command made

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cd ./love-0.8.0-linux

Now just run these commands and hope it works:

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./configure
make
sudo make install

Should work. Ubuntu and LOVE2D should be polite enough to also put shortcuts and stuff in for you.

[micha]

I believe compiling LÖVE is really not necessary on ubuntu. Partysofa, can you say, what exactly does not work? How far have you gotten?

[Partysofa]

I've never used Ubuntu before, but I've learned if all else fails just compile it from source.

Download from this link: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloa ... src.tar.gz

Open a terminal window at the file location, and type

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tar zxf love-0.8.0-linux-src.tar.gz

Now change into the directory that that command made

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cd ./love-0.8.0-linux

Now just run these commands and hope it works:

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./configure
make
sudo make install

Should work. Ubuntu and LOVE2D should be polite enough to also put shortcuts and stuff in for you.

Didn't work, and I can't find anything on the Software Center. Here's what the terminal says:

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checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/home/olav/Nedlastinger/love-0.8.0':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
olav@ubuntu:~/Nedlastinger/love-0.8.0$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

[Boolsheet]

Their website says it has LÖVE 0.8.0. http://packages.ubuntu.com/it/quantal/love

See Building LÖVE for more steps on how to compile LÖVE on Linux. You need all the libraries and a C++ compiler.

[T-Bone]

I think compiling sounds overly complicated. Just get it from the PPA if you for some reason can't get it from the USC.

[bartbes]

Their website says it has LÖVE 0.8.0. http://packages.ubuntu.com/it/quantal/love

Consequently, 'sudo apt-get install love' gets you it.

[Partysofa]

I'm trying to reinstall Ubuntu, I didn't really have anything of extreme value saved there anyway as I just got that laptop from my brother, it's pretty old. Nevertheless, thank you guys so much for helping me out, warms my heart!

[vitaminx]

I think compiling sounds overly complicated.

Nah, it isn't too complicated, just take some time to really read the error message:

checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/home/olav/Nedlastinger/love-0.8.0':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
olav@ubuntu:~/Nedlastinger/love-0.8.0$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

bingo, no c compiler found!
to install a c compiler on ubuntu use this:

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sudo apt-get install gcc