These notes complement the information on http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development

• build/ and rawbuild/ missing after ./download:
  • If you only followed the instructions on the wiki page, the build/ and rawbuild/ directories are not there
  • as suggested at the end of the ./download step, you should run make in the loroot directory

• Package requirements (gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.6.0 ) were not met: No package 'gnome-vfs-2.0' found:
  • install libgnomevfs2-dev.
• Qt headers not found:
  • the packages to install are (the first addds most of the rest as dependencies, but not all):
    • libqt3-mt-dev
    • libqt3-headers
    • libqt3-compat-headers
    • qt3-dev-tools
    • qt3-apps-dev
• KDE headers not found:
  • install kdelibs-dev
• cannot find JUnit 4 jar:
  • install junit4 (not junit)

• This is really long: on a Q6600 with 4 GB RAM, it took almost five hours. YMMV, but that first build will certainly take several hours and will at times eat all resources on your machine, to the point of making applications look stuck.