+$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libgmp-dev libjsoncpp-dev
+
+You can install git for easily keeping your copy up to date.
+If you dont want git, read below on how to get the source without git.
+This is an example for installing git on Debian/Ubuntu:
+$ sudo apt-get install git-core
+
+Download source (this is the URL to the latest of source repository, which might not work at all times) using git:
+$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest.git
+$ cd minetest