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+The configure script should check for all these libs, but nevertheless here is
+a list of the dependencies.
+
+Requirements:
+
+- libgtkmm, libglibmm >= 2.4
+
+- SDL >= 1.2.0 (used for sound)
+ to be found at http://www.libsdl.org
+
+- SDL_mixer >= 1.2.6 (used for sound)
+ there should be a link on the sdl home page
+
+- expat
+ an XML parser to be found under http://expat.sf.net.
+
+- libtar >= 1.2.11
+ a library for managing tar files. Found at: http://www.feep.net/libtar
+
+- libsigc++ >= 2.0
+ to be found at http://libsigc.sf.net
+
+- pkg-config
+ Should be distributed with the Linux distribution. Required for detecting
+ the libsigc++-package and -flags
+
+- GNU gettext
+ Should be distributed with the Linux distribution.
+
+- Gnet Library libgnet >= 2.0
+
+
+on Ubuntu 9.10, (Karmic Koala) you need the following packages:
+sudo apt-get install automake autoconf libtool m4 autotools-dev g++ libsigc++-2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev gettext subversion libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libgnet-dev libboost-dev intltool cvs libtar-dev
+
+