At the moment, OpenLibraries is in a transition from the existing Autotools based system to a CMake based on. At this time, it is recommended that, unless you wish to work on the CMake build files, the Autotools build system be used.

Dependancies

NOT COMPLETE

CMake 2.6

As referenced in http://lists.openlibraries.org/pipermail/developers/2008-June/000008.html , Ubuntu 8.04 does not ship the required version of CMake. Please install the intrepid version. (Available from archive.ubuntu.com )

Other

sudo aptitude install libboost-dev libopenal-dev libsqlite3-dev libglew-dev libxml2-dev libmlt++-dev libmlt-dev libglut3-dev libtiff4-dev libbz2-dev libopenexr-dev libavformat-dev libsdl1.2-dev python-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev 

CMake

Create a directory outside of the main src dir:

cd ../
mkdir build/
cd build/

Now run an out of source cmake build:

cmake ../<path_to_src> -DWITH_PYTHON_EXTENTIONS:BOOL=TRUE
make
sudo make install

And there you have it, a compiled and installed copy of OpenLibraries.