Installing MakeHuman on Ubuntu

MakeHuman is a software application that generates 3D humanoids; similar to Poser or DazStudio. If you need a human model, and want to make it as fast as possible (or simply you don't know yet how to do one), maybe you need this software.



the instructions in this post are based on the instructions from this page.

First, install the software needed to compile. You'll be needing (atleast) the softwares to be installed by the following commands. in your terminal (press ALT+F2, then type xterm). see this link.

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

sudo apt-get install xorg-dev

sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev

Second, download the following files from this link and save anywhere on your drive (say /home/your_account_name/makehuman)

• animorph-xx.tar.gz
• makehuman-xx.tar.gz
• mhgui-xx.tar.gz

Third, extract the downloaded files, by right-clicking on them and select Extract Here.

Fourth, we now compile.. but first open again a terminal (ALT+F2, type xterm) and then cd to the directory where you extracted the downloaded files.

cd makehuman

first,compile and install the animorph..

cd animorph-xx
./configure
make
sudo make install

In first time we must run ldconfig so that MakeHuman can find animorph and mhgui libraries::

and then the mhgui..

cd ..
cd mhgui-xx
./configure
make
sudo make install

and lastly the makehuman...

cd ..
cd makehuman-xx
./configure
make
sudo make install

and after everything went well, we can now execute makehuman, but first we must run ldconfig so that MakeHuman can find animorph and mhgui libraries

sudo ldconfig

and then,finally run makehuman

makehuman

makehuman
makehuman will now open a window.

Lastly, to create a shortcut button on your desktop, we will create a launcher. anywhere on your desktop, right click and select Create Launcher... on the command type makehuman.

and there you go, you have now a button on your desktop for the makehuman.

enjoy!