Installation Guide

Prerequisites

Screenshot of the MATE terminal

If you are using Ubuntu MATE, then you can get all the prerequisites with:
sudo apt-get install pluma gcc make unzip

This installs:

Pluma:

Text editor

GCC:

GNU Compiler Collection (C compiler)

Make:

For building and installing/uninstalling

Unzip:

For extracting ZIP archives

For other text editors a rather good list can be found here.

Compiling From Source

Screenshot of the MATE terminal

If you have downloaded the ZIP file of Blue Bird Version 1.2.5, and it is in your Downloads folder, the terminal commands to extract the ZIP archive are:

cd Downloads
unzip leung-engineering-bluebird-v-1-2-5.zip

This will extract the project root directory into your Downloads folder.

When you are happy with the settings it is simply a case of:

cd where/bluebird/root/directory/is
make
./build/bluebird

If you are feeling dangerous, you can copy bluebird to your /usr/bin directory:
sudo make install

Or if you don't trust makefiles:
sudo cp build/bluebird /usr/bin

To check that it has been installed:
bluebird