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Building Shoes on Linux
You should build Shoes with 1.9.1 or 1.9.2, 1.8.7 may work, but isn't guaranteed right now.
One should note that in the following, ${SHOES_HOME} is just wherever you want to install your shoes installation to. If you are unsure what to use, just use ~/shoes here.
Linux users should install dependencies through the distro’s package manager (these are the yum, apt-get and so on commands you will see below).
The following has been tested on Fedora 7, but should work on Fedora 6, CentOS v5 and RHEL5 as well:
git clone git://github.com/shoes/shoes.git ${SHOES_DIR}
cd ${SHOES_DIR}
gem install bundler
sudo yum install -y giflib-devel cairo-devel libpixman-devel pango-devel libjpeg-devel gtk2-devel libcurl-devel ruby-devel portaudio-devel
rake
git clone git://github.com/shoes/shoes.git ${SHOES_DIR}
cd ${SHOES_DIR}
gem install bundler
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libpixman-1-dev libpango1.0-dev libungif4-dev libjpeg62-dev libgtk2.0-dev libsqlite3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev portaudio19-dev ruby1.8-dev rake
rake
sudo apt-get install git-core libcairo2-dev libpixman-1-dev libpango1.0-dev libungif4-dev libjpeg62-dev libgtk2.0-dev vlc libvlc-dev portaudio19-dev libsqlite3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev makeself curl
git clone git://github.com/shoes/shoes.git
cd shoes
gem install bundler
gem install mechanize
rake
Older Ubuntus may get apt-get errors with portaudio19-dev, which was previously known as libportaudio19-dev.
There is a package available in AUR. If you have yaourt installed, just
$ yaourt -S shoes-git
Otherwise, build it like any other package from the AUR.
Once installed (wherever you set #{SHOES_HOME} to), you can run shoes by entering the command #{SHOES_HOME}/dist/shoes.
If you would prefer a desktop link that will start shoes for you, you can create a custom application launcher which points to this command. In Ubuntu, you can do this by right clicking on the desktop and selecting "Create Launcher" from the drop-down. Enter in "Shoes" for the name and the command #{SHOES_HOME}/dist/shoes into the "command" section. Note though that if you use a ~ in #{SHOES_NAME}, you must replace that with the actual location of your home folder. If your username is bob on the computer, then you would replace ~ with /home/bob/ in the command you enter into this field. Once you click "OK" you should be able to run shoes straight from your desktop. (You can also go through a similar process in order to make the application launchable from you Applications Menu).