Dependencies

GCC

CMake

libjpeg

libpng

SDL

Freetype

SQLite3

Zlib

Zstd

LuaJIT

GMP

JsonCPP

Curl

gettext

Install Dependencies For Debian/Ubuntu users:

sudo apt install g++ make libc6-dev cmake libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libgmp-dev libjsoncpp-dev libzstd-dev libluajit-5.1-dev gettext libsdl2-dev

For Fedora users:

sudo dnf install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel cmake libcurl-devel openal-soft-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel libvorbis-devel libogg-devel freetype-devel mesa-libGL-devel zlib-devel jsoncpp-devel gmp-devel sqlite-devel luajit-devel leveldb-devel ncurses-devel spatialindex-devel libzstd-devel gettext SDL2-devel

For openSUSE users:

sudo zypper install gcc gcc-c++ cmake libjpeg8-devel libpng16-devel openal-soft-devel libcurl-devel sqlite3-devel luajit-devel libzstd-devel Mesa-libGL-devel libvorbis-devel freetype2-devel SDL2-devel

For Arch users:

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel libcurl-gnutls cmake libpng sqlite libogg libvorbis openal freetype2 jsoncpp gmp luajit leveldb ncurses zstd gettext sdl2

For Alpine users:

sudo apk add build-base cmake libpng-dev jpeg-dev mesa-dev sqlite-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev openal-soft-dev curl-dev freetype-dev zlib-dev gmp-dev jsoncpp-dev luajit-dev zstd-dev gettext sdl2-dev

For Void users:

sudo xbps-install cmake libpng-devel jpeg-devel mesa sqlite-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel libopenal-devel libcurl-devel freetype-devel zlib-devel gmp-devel jsoncpp-devel LuaJIT-devel libzstd-devel gettext SDL2-devel

Server

wget https://github.com/minetest/minetest/archive/refs/tags/5.9.0.tar.gz
tar -xf 5.9.0.tar.gz
mv minetest-5.9.0 minetest
cd minetest
cmake . -DBUILD_SERVER=TRUE -DBUILD_CLIENT=FALSE -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j$(nproc)

Client

wget https://github.com/minetest/minetest/archive/refs/tags/5.9.0.tar.gz
tar -xf 5.9.0.tar.gz
mv minetest-5.9.0 minetest
cd minetest
cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j$(nproc)