No specific steps are required to run the win32 nightly build. Just download, unzip and double-click the "makehuman.exe" file.
The i386 tarballs have all been built on an ubuntu 8.04 LTS machine. To be able to run them, you need to do apt-get install python2.5 libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2. The amd64 tarballs have been built on ubuntu 9.10, and to run those, you need to run apt-get install python2.6 libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2.
If you don't have a debian-based linux distribution you need
When having fulfilled pre-reqs, simply download, unpack and run the binary "makehuman". The exact steps on a console prompt would be:
wget http://mh.jwp.se/files/makehuman-886-20090321.tbz2 tar -xvjpf makehuman-886-20090321.tbz2 cd makehuman ./makehuman
(where you can skip the "wget" step if you already downloaded the tarball through some other means). As an alternative, this is how you can run it graphically on Ubuntu if you are uncomfortable with using the console prompt:
- download the file onto your desktop - right-click and select "unpack here" (or whatever it is called in english, I'm on a swedish desktop) - (you now have a directory called "makehuman"). Double-click "makehuman" folder - double-click the binary "makehuman"
To be able to build or rebuild makehuman from source, you will probably also need to do:
apt-get install build-essential libsdl-console libsdl-perl libsage-dev libsdl1.2-dev libglu1-mesa-dev python2.5-dev
(some of these may be unneeded, ask someone on the MH team if you want to know more about it). To compile the tried old-fashioned way, do:
cd makehuman make -f Makefile.Linux ./makehuman
You can also use scons:
apt-get install scons cd makehuman scons ./makehuman