I just did a fresh install of AlephOne on a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop & thought I'd share the complete howto in case someone else found it useful.

Caitifty

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Download the AlephOne package from http://marathon.sourceforge.net

Download the Marathon Infinity gamefiles from http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/files/MarathonInfinity.zip (you can also get gamefiles for Marathon 1 and 2, as well as other singleplayer scenarios etc from the same site: http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/)

You should now have two files: MarathonInfinity.zip and one with a name like AlephOne-20100424.tar.bz2 (the number in the middle of the AlephOne file will probably be different).

Move both files to your desktop if they're not there already.

Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and cut and paste the following:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-net1.2-dev zziplib-bin libzzip-dev libboost-dev libsndfile1 libsndfile1-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libmadlib-dev libsmpeg-dev libspeex-dev libspeexdsp-dev libmad0-dev

You'll be asked for your login password. You'll also be asked if you want to install a long list of stuff. Type y.

Once that process ends (may take a while depending on your bandwidth), paste the following into the terminal:

cd ~/Desktop
bunzip2 AlephOne*
tar xvf AlephOne*.tar
cd AlephOne-*
./compile
make
sudo make install

the compile and make steps will dump a lot of garbage on your screen and will take a while to complete, particularly if you have a slower computer.

If the final 'sudo make install' step produces a bunch of errors about nothing to install, something went wrong and you can curse me and my stupid howto. If not, do:

cd ~/Desktop
unzip MarathonInfinity.zip
cd Marathon\ Infinity
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/AlephOne/Themes/
sudo mv * /usr/local/share/AlephOne

You're now basically done. Type:

alephone

Which should launch aleph. Test it by playing the single player mode ('Begin new game'). Quit using the 'esc' key.

You can run AlephOne whenever you want by holding Alt-F2 and typing alephone in the box that appears, but to add Aleph to your applications menu, do the following:

Download a decent scalable icon (this is optional, but otherwise you'll just get Ubuntu's default application launcher icon). There's one at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Marathon_logo.svg Assuming the logo is on your desktop, do:

sudo mv ~/Desktop/Marathon_logo.svg /usr/local/share/AlephOne

Then:

Go to System -> Preferences -> Main Menu.

In the left panel of the window, select 'Games' (or whatever submenu you want Aleph to appear in).

Click 'New item' on the right of the window. In the window that appears, fill the fields as follows:

Name: AlephOne (or Marathon or whatever you want to appear in your applications menu)
Command: alephone

To (optionally) add an icon, click the icon button on the left of the window, then navigate to /usr/local/share/AlephOne and select the Marathon_logo.svg file.

Click 'close'. You're done. Go to Applications -> Games -> AlephOne and start playing.