Drastic software has a few requirements that are not included in the standard install of Ubuntu 14.04. This article describes how to add them
libStatGrab
Installing libstatgrab:
sudo apt-get install statgrab libstatgrab-dev
SDL
Install libSDL:
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
Thats it.
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