SetupGuide

Linux Setup Guide

If you're running Gentoo linux, you're lucky, because an ebuild is already available.
The best way to install the ebuild in gentoo would be to add an portage overlay and copy the file into the overlay. Now in detail:

mkdir /usr/local/portage
add this line to you /etc/make.conf
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
download the ebuild you want, for example: spring-ebuilds-0.74-r3.tar.bz2
mv spring-ebuilds-0.74-r3.tar.bz2 /usr/local/portage
cd /usr/local/portage
tar jxvf spring-ebuilds-0.74-r3.tar.bz2
most likely you don't run a ~x86 system (unstable) so do a:
echo "games-strategy/spring ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "dev-libs/boost threads" >> /etc/portage/package.use
if you want spring's evn version instead of stable do:
emerge spring-svn
You might want to have a look at the USE flags, type:
emerge -pv spring
the current useflags are debug, optimize(which i enabled and worked without errors), omni (for omni lobby) and unity (for Unity Lobby).
finally install it with:
emerge spring

Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) games-strategy/taspring-linux-release-0.72-r1 to /

>>> checking ebuild checksums ;-)

>>> checking auxfile checksums ;-)

>>> checking miscfile checksums ;-)

>>> checking taspring-linux-data-0.72b1.tar.bz2 ;-)

>>> Unpacking source...

!!! ERROR: games-strategy/taspring-linux-release-0.72-r1 failed.

Call stack:

ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_unpack

ebuild.sh, line 711: Called src_unpack

taspring-linux-release-0.72-r1.ebuild, line 45: Called subversion_src_unpack

subversion.eclass, line 278: Called subversion_fetch

subversion.eclass, line 127: Called die

!!! subversion.eclass: ESVN_REPO_URI is empty.

!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

!!! This ebuild is from an overlay: '/usr/local/portage'

=== Debian, Ubuntu