> How do I do that?:) Rather than only telling you how, I'm going to walk you through the problem solving process by which I figured out how. You'll notice that I don't really know what I'm doing. I just try things, figure out why they didn't work, fix the problem, and repeat until everything works. I suggest you learn to do this approach too. You can get pretty far with it.
---------- begin walkthrough ---------- First we need a copy of the source code. We will use git to make a clone of the repository on our machine. $ sudo apt install git $ cd path/to/somewhere $ git clone https://github.com/PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-4 This creates a directory called POL-POM-4. Let's see what's inside $ cd POL-POM-4 $ ls I notice there is a directory called bin. $ ls bin check_dd_amd64.bz2 check_dd_x86.bz2 After we build the program, binaries should appear here. I also see something called Makefile. A makefile tells GNU Make how to build the program. Let's try using make now. $ make We get an error: ./src/check_direct_rendering.c:33:19: fatal error: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory Looks like the development libraries for opengl are required and I don't have them installed. Let's fix that and try again. $ sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev $ make No errors. Let's see what's in bin now. $ ls bin check_dd_amd64.bz2 check_dd_x86.bz2 playonlinux playonlinux-check_dd playonlinux-pkg Looks good. Now we'll use 'make install' to install the program. $ sudo make install cp: cannot stat './bin/{playonlinux,playonlinux-pkg}': No such file or directory Huh. What's './bin/{playonlinux,playonlinux-pkg}'? Let's find out: $ echo ./bin/{playonlinux,playonlinux-pkg} ./bin/playonlinux ./bin/playonlinux-pkg This is called brace expansion. './bin/{playonlinux,playonlinux-pkg}' is short for './bin/playonlinux ./bin/playonlinux-pkg', but somebody isn't figuring that out. The problem is that the makefile does not specify which shell to use, and we are defaulting to one that doesn't support brace expansion. To fix this, add SHELL=/bin/bash at the top of Makefile and try again. $ sudo make install That worked! Now let's try to run the program. $ playonlinux No module named wxversion Crap. Let's see if there's something we can install called wxversion. $ apt-cache search wxversion python-wxversion - API for selecting the wxPython version to use Cool. We'll take it. $ sudo apt install python-wxversion $ playonlinux I get a bunch more messages about missing stuff related to Python and wx. I'm getting impatient at this point, so I install all packages that begin with 'python-wx' $ sudo apt install python-wx* $ playonlinux I now get a popup saying "PlayOnLinux cannot find cabextract You need to install it to continue" Okay. $ sudo apt install cabextract $ playonlinux I get three similar popups, the first two telling me that I need things from icoutils and the third telling me I need wine. The program actually launches now, but it probably won't work without those dependencies. $ sudo apt install icoutils wine $ playonlinux Finally, the program launches with no errors.
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