Installing the player/stage I ran into a few problems and did not find good solutions, I am posting what worked for me-
1. Download the player project
2. Extract the player folder
3. sudo apt-get install python-gdal netcdfg-dev libpq-dev libhdf4g-dev libgeos-dev libatk1.0-0 lib3ds-dev freeglut3-dev
4. Run cmake (if you want create a directory for build like the install guide specfies)
5. Run make
6. Run sudo make install
7. add the following to your .bashrc file
export PATH=$PATH:"/usr/local/lib64"
export PLAYERPATH="/usr/local/lib":"/usr/local/lib64"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:"/usr/local/lib":"/usr/local/lib64"
This should get you to set up.
This link http://www.control.aau.dk/~tb/wiki/index.php/Installing_Player_and_Stage_in_Ubuntu has a lot of information for installing and configuring your player information
