Comment 6 for bug 246780

Oh.

It looks like you're missing the Freetype development headers ("libfreetype6-dev");

And, at a guess you'll probably be missing the libnotify headers as well ("libnotify-dev");

Installing them should get things up and running:

  $ sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libnotify-dev

The instructions on the wiki are known to work if that helps?

  http://www.salasaga.org/wiki/index.php/HowToInstallOnUbuntu

Also, the very latest development snapshot, from less than an hour ago, has good enhancements with text that are worthwhile:

  http://www.salasaga.org/downloads/alpha6_dev/salasaga_20090603.tar.bz2

Please let me know if it works for you, and you consider the memory usage a lot better? (ie bug is confirmed as fixed)