I keep on having to find these step so I decided to post them for myself at a place where I know it will be. After installing ubuntu run these commands as is in a terminal app. sudo apt-get install subversion openexr libopenexr-dev build-essential libjpeg-dev \ libpng12-dev libopenal-dev libalut-dev libsdl-dev libfreetype6-dev libtiff-dev python-dev \ gettext libxi-dev; \ cd ~ ; \ mkdir blender-svn ; \ cd blender-svn ; \ svn checkout https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender... read more
