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Title: Simple Guide for Installing SFML to Ubuntu 64-bit?
Post by: xdzt on March 02, 2011, 06:25:54 pm

I spent most of last night trying to install SFML to the latest [k]ubuntu 64-bit distro with minimal success. Eventually after a few hours, I was able to compile clock.cpp with g++ and get it to run, so I decided to try compiling and running the pong example, which didn't work. At this point it had been 5 hours or so of chasing down dependencies, and I decided there must be a better way.

So, my question is if there's a straightforward guide to getting a fully functional SFML installation on 64-bit ubuntu? Perhaps a .deb package somewhere that would magically solve all my woes? I've had a search, but haven't run across anything yet.

Title: Simple Guide for Installing SFML to Ubuntu 64-bit?
Post by: Laurent on March 02, 2011, 06:34:28 pm

I guess SFML 1.6 is packaged in the official repositories.

For a manual installation to succeed, all you have to know is the list of dependencies, which is there (near the end):
http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.6/start-linux.php

Title: Simple Guide for Installing SFML to Ubuntu 64-bit?
Post by: xdzt on March 02, 2011, 06:38:43 pm

Thanks! I'll give it a shot tonight. I tried both manual installation and installing from the repos, but I overlooked that list somehow, so I'm guessing that's where my problem lay.