SuperTuxKart wiki

In a terminal

sudo apt get install subversion git build-essential cmake

We assume you install the game in $HOME/games

mkdir games
cd games

# get the code (here, use the command you'll find in the list of the forks for using a modified version)
# (fetch official code)
git clone https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code supertuxkart.git

# get the assets
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/supertuxkart/code/stk-assets stk-assets

See the list of active forks to use a fork (or a future feature) of SuperTuxKart.

cd supertuxkart.git
mkdir _build
cd _build
cmake ..
make

Once the compilation is done, you can run the game.

./bin/supertuxkart

Source : https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/blob/master/INSTALL.md

(the current dir shall be _build)
If you install git version as main version just use sudo make install.

(the current dir shall be _build)
this method doesn't work well yet, the user have to lauch the app from stk source dir If you install git version as main version use :

sed -i "s|\(set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX \).*|\1\"$HOME/.local\")|" cmake_install.cmake
make install 

To create a launcher you can edit a file in games/ named 'supertuxkart_git.sh' (you can move it anywhere):

supertuxkart() {
  _STKDIR="$(locate supertuxkart.git/_build/bin | head -1)"
  [ -z "$_STKDIR" ] && exit 1
  pushd $(dirname $_STKDIR)
  if [ -z "$(find . -name supertuxkart -executable 2> /dev/null)" ]; then
     make
  fi
  ./bin/supertuxkart  $@
  popd
}
supertuxkart $@

Finally set rights to execute the file

chmod +x supertuxkart_git.sh

You'll have to create a file supertuxkart_git.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications

[Desktop Entry]
Name=SuperTuxKart
Icon=supertuxkart
GenericName=SuperTuxKart (latest)
Exec=~/games/supertuxkart_git.sh
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Type=Application
Categories=Game;ArcadeGame;