It is recommended that you install from the repository or a nightly version, but if you still want to compile you can with these instructions.

1. Install dependencies:

   sudo apt-get build-dep manaplus

2. Make a directory:

   mkdir manaplus

3. Open the directory:

   cd manaplus

4. Download client sources:

   wget http://download.evolonline.org/manaplus/download/manaplus.tar.xz

5. Extract sources:

   tar xvJf manaplus.tar.xz

6. Open subdir:

   cd manaplus*

7. Update make file:

   autoreconf -i

8. Compile:

   ./configure
   make

9. Install:

   sudo make install

10. Uninstall.
    If you want, you can unstall game by running this command:

    sudo make uninstall

11. Now you can run game by selecting Applications \ Games \ ManaPlus.

Repository, Nightly