WINDOWS USERS OpenMortal comes with this friendly installer now. Run it, K? :) LINUX/BSD/MAC OS USERS So, here's this configure script, right? Yes. Depending on which version you downloaded it installs the "base" system with all the characters, or just some characters. If you got the master package, you can choose to disable some of the characters with parameters to configure: --enable-main Include main data and binary [default: yes] --enable-characters Include the first batch of characters [default: yes] --enable-additional Include the second batch of characters [default: yes] --enable-thirdparty Include the 3rd party characters [default: yes] This is intended to help packagers break the master package into smaller chunks. To get the entire list of (mostly useless) configure options, call ./configure -help After configure does it's magic, you go make make install openmortal What to do in case something goes wrong during installation: 1. Curse me. 2. Make sure that perl-devel, SDL-devel, SDL_image-devel, SDL_mixer-devel and freetype2-devel 3. Check OpenMortal Bugs tracker on the website. 4. File new bug report if no solution is found.