Since luola version 0.9.9 , levels are no longer distributed with the main source package. This is simply to save download time, as it is rather pointless to download the same levels over and over again when updating. Please go to the luola homepage http://www.luolamies.org/software/luola/ and download a level pack. To install the levels, first install luola with 'make install' and then unpack the level pack into the systemwide levels directory. By default it is /usr/local/share/luola/levels If you do not have write access, you can also install the levels locally for the current user by unpacking them to ~/.luola/levels .