I was excited to see Crayon Physics Deluxe included in the latest edition of the Humble Bundle. When I downloaded it I was a little thrown off when I realized that I was not getting a .deb file (which would handle dependencies) but just a compressed tar archive. The install was not exactly intuitive so I thought I would make a note of it here for others.
I extracted the CrayonPhysicsDeluxe folder that is in the tar archive into my home directory.
Then I opened a terminal window (alt + ctrl + t) and since one of the files in the folder was called launcher I decided that was a good place to start. I tried to run it and got the following error:

mike@sleepycat:~/CrayonPhysicsDeluxe$./launcher
./launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It turns out that libmikmod and another library need to be installed to get this game up and running…

sudo apt-get install libmikmod2 libsmpeg0

You will also need to make the file “crayon” in the CrayonPhysicsDeluxe folder executable as well:

mike@sleepycat:~/CrayonPhysicsDeluxe$ chmod +x crayon

I can’t remember if I had to chmod the launcher file as well, but if you run “ls” on ~/CrayonPhysicsDeluxe launcher and crayon should both be green.

Happy drawing!