SimSpark

Ubuntu/Mint standard instructions.

To install simspark on Ubuntu or Mint, follow the instructions at The SimSpark installation guide (add the ppa and update).

For Simspark-SPL (by NAOTH), add these packages or build the project from source after installing dependencies:

apt-get install g++ subversion cmake libfreetype6-dev libode-dev libsdl-dev ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev apt-get install libdevil-dev libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-regex-dev

For rcssserver3d and simpark from packages, use:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xu-informatik/simspark-spl
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install spark-spl
sudo apt-get install rcssserver3d-spl 

Known issues:

If you are using Mint 15, updating the repositories may not work. To fix this, edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnurubuntu-rubuntu-raring.list to change 'raring' to 'quantal', update again and install

Compiling Simspark-SPL

If youŕe compiling Simspark-SPL yourself, you'll need the dependencies listed in the compilation guide (also in the INSTALL file in simspark-SPL/trunk/spark/).

Recurring errors

Missing boost library system: apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev