Installing Mypaint 1.0.0 step-by-step

Mypaint is an amazing digital painting software for Linux, Windows and Mac. I absolutely love it, but installing it on Slackware 13.37 was a bit tricky...

First of all, download and extract mypaint 1.0.0:

wget http://download.gna.org/mypaint/mypaint-1.0.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvf mypaint-1.0.0.tar.bz2
cd  mypaint-1.0.0

Now, if you take a look at the readme file

cat README

you'll see that it needs scons to compile. If you haven't installed scons don't panic, there is an easy to get SlackBuild: